Fowles

Fowles
(1926– )
an English writer who has written successful novels in a wide range of styles, four of which have been made into films. These include The Collector (1963), a psychological crime novel, and The Magus (1966), a complicated and mysterious story about a young man on a Greek island. Fowles’s best-known work is probably The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) and the film, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, appeared in 1981.

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