In 1939, he won a place at Bedford School, where he remained a pupil until 1944. He was an only child until he was 16 years old. He attended Alleyn Court Preparatory School. New College, Oxford, where Fowles attended university.ĭuring his childhood Fowles was attended by his mother and his cousin Peggy Fowles, who was 18 years his senior. Later fictional works include The Ebony Tower (1974), Daniel Martin (1977), Mantissaįowles's books have been translated into many languages, and several have been adapted as films.īiography Birth and family įowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, England, the son of Gladys May Richards and Robert John Fowles.
This was followed by The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived for much of his life.
His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.Īfter leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired The Magus (1965), an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s "hippy" anarchism and experimental philosophy. John Robert Fowles ( / f aʊ l z/ 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.
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