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Bookmark or Share- John Fowles | Novelist, Naturalist, Philosopher | BritannicaJohn Fowles was an English novelist, whose allusive and descriptive works combine psychological probings—chiefly of sex and love—with an interest in social and philosophical issues. Fowles graduated from the University of Oxford in 1950 and taught in Greece, France, and Britain.
- John Fowles - Book Series in OrderJohn Fowles was an internationally renowned novelist best known for writing ‘The Magus’, a bestseller that was inspired by the time the author spent on the Greek Island of Spetses. +Biography. John Fowles was born in 1926 in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex to a family of merchants.
- Analysis of John Fowles’s Novels – Literary Theory and CriticismJohn Fowles’s (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) fiction has one theme: the quest of his protagonists for self-knowledge. Such a quest is not easy in the modern world because, as many other modern authors have shown, the contemporary quester is cut off from the traditions and rituals of the past that gave people…
- John Fowles, 79, British Postmodernist Who Tested Novel's Conventions ...John Fowles, the British writer whose teasing, multilayered fiction explored the tensions between free will and the constraints of society, even as it played with traditional novelistic ...
- John Fowles (Author of The Collector) - GoodreadsJohn Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since."
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