John Fowles

Five literary treats to last all year long

2010-12-24 21:33:45

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Rediscoveries: 'The Tree' by John Fowles

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Re-Discoveries An occasional look at classic reissues… The Tree by John Fowles with a new introduction by Barry Lopez (Ecco: 94 pp., $13.99 paper) "The key to my fiction," wrote Fowles in 1979 when this essay was first published, "lies in my...

Right in the eye of the storm with Giles Foden's "Turbulence"

2010-08-15 00:00:00

Turbulence A Novel Giles Foden Alfred A. Knopf: 318 pp., $25.95 There is a game in which one child suggests several things — a rose, say, a chocolate cake, a steam engine — and another improvises a story linking them. Giles Foden's...

British writer created Rumpole

2009-01-17 00:00:00

John Mortimer, a British lawyer and writer who created the character Horace Rumpole, a disheveled barrister memorably featured in the popular television series "Rumpole of the Bailey," died Friday at his home in Oxfordshire, England. He was 85. The cause...

'The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri' by David Bajo

2008-06-22 00:00:00

The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri A Novel David Bajo Viking: 290 pp., $25.95 Literature transforms. If you are the type to get lost in a book, if the surrounding world comes to a complete halt when you read, if the words on the page come alive, a book...

Harold Pinter, influential playwright and Nobel winner, dies at 78

2008-12-26 00:00:00

Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright who addressed the isolation, fear and brutality of life in an original style that changed the face of 20th century theater, has died. He was 78. Pinter, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for...

"The Tree" by John Fowles

2010-10-04 13:03:00

"The Tree" By John Fowles Introduction by Barry Lopez Ecco, $13.99, 112 pages John Fowles (1926-2005), primarily known as a stylish writer and the author of beloved classics like such as "The French Lieutenant's Woman," has been somewhat overlooked as...

New dinosaur species may be a missing link

2009-11-12 00:00:00

Before the dig started, it looked like any other patch of dinosaur dirt: gray soil, a few brownish fossilized bones exposed by erosion. Paleontologist Adam Yates thought his diggers would find a few bones from the massospondylus -- South Africa's most...

JOHN FOWLES The writer said his novels often originated in a recurring image or a dream. For "The French Lieutenant's Woman," the image was that of a woman on a quay staring out to sea.

2005-11-07 19:08:00

Author John Fowles, Nov. 5 British author John Fowles, whose works include "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "The Collector" died on Nov. 5. He was 79. Fowles died at his home in Lyme Regis, Dorset, southwest England, after a long illness.

2005-11-07 13:01:44