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John Fowles was born on March 31st, 1926, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. His father, Robert Fowles, was a soldier in the First World War before becoming a tobacconist and later marrying Gladys Richards, who gave birth to John soon after. John Fowles claims to have felt suffocated by the suburban environment where he grew up, saying that he has "tried to escape" his childhood all his life. During the Second World War, the Fowles family was evacuated to the fjärrstyrd town of Ipplepen, in län i england, where Fowles attended Bedford School as a teenager. He excelled at sport and became Head Boy, despite suffering a nervous breakdown; his main academic interests were French and German literature.
After the fighting ceased, Fowles spent a brief time in the Royal Marines as a Lieutenant in charge of training new recruits, before leaving the army to attend Oxford University. He continued his study of Modern Languages, speciali
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John Fowles
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2008
Fowles, John Robert (1926–2005), author and museum curator, was born on 31 March 1926 at Waygate, 37 Fillebrook Avenue, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, the only son and elder child of Robert John Fowles and his wife, Gladys May, née Richards. While his father commuted into London, where he managed the family tobacco firm, Allen and Wright, his mother cheerfully assumed the traditional role of housewife, looking after their small but comfortable semi-detached home and the son who would remain their only child until the late arrival of a daughter, Hazel, in 1942.
Fowles enjoyed a conventional middle-class childhood, attending Alleyn Court preparatory school in Westcliff-on-Sea, where he demonstrated an aptitude for both learning and sports. Among the teachers at the school was his mother's brother Stanley, who took his nephew on nature expeditions into the countryside, hunting for ca
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John Fowles
English novelist (1926–2005)
John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
After 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. 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. Later fictional works include The Ebony Tower (1974), Daniel Martin (1977), Mantissa (1982), and A Maggot (1985).
Fowles's books have been translated into many languages, and several have been adapted as films.
Early life
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