John Fowles: 1926 - 2005
One of my favourite authors and the writer of my #1 book The Magus died at the weekend after a long illness.
Although, for reasons I cannot personally fathom (possibly because he did not play the ‘fame’ game but perhaps more to do with the elitism of UK critics), Fowles was not rated amongst the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, at least in Britain, he nevertheless wrote several books that have transcended literature and had enormous transformative effects on people’s lives.
He will be sorely missed by me and many others I know - I have been waiting in vain for the ‘lost’ novels to be published and I suppose they never will now. The old guard is truly passing and we are really now in the eight day of the week. We shall not see his like again and the others of his type are also fewer by the day.
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