John Fowles

John Fowles was born in 1926 in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and grew up in an England shaped by the repressions and class rigidities of the interwar period. He studied French at Oxford and spent a formative year teaching on the Greek island of Spetsai, an experience that would become the seed of The Magus. Before establishing himself as a novelist, he taught at various schools in England and Greece, accumulating the observations of human behavior that would fuel his fiction. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Magus.