John Fowles was born 100 years ago! Kelly Cresap, Ph.D., continues to find new ways to celebrate Fowles’ 2026 birth centenary, and especially Fowles’ 1977 novel Daniel Martin. In January he gave a talk, “John Fowles’ Synoptic View of Human Existence” at an arts and…
We receive lots of e-mail at this site, much of it asking questions about John Fowles and his work. One question in particular keeps popping up again and again: “What does the quotation at the end of The Magus mean?” So, in order to save…
Here are two vintage radio broadcasts featuring interviews of John Fowles: A 40-minute interview conducted by Roy Plomley is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mvj0, originally broadcast in 1981. Plomley asks Fowles which pieces of music he would most want to be able to listen to if stranded…
Eileen Warburton’s biography, John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds was published by Viking/Penguin (500 pages, $29.95) in 2004. It is available at Amazon.com (in the U.S.), Amazon.co.uk (in the United Kingdom) and wherever fine books are sold. From the dust jacket flap: Celebrated and…
On October 23, 1977, John Fowles was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for the BBC Television show “The Lively Arts.” The following is a transcript. MELVYN BRAGG: John Fowles is one of the handful of British authors treated with respect by the press and with delight…
In April of 1966, shortly after The Magus was published in the U.S., a high school senior living in New York wrote to John Fowles and asked about “the meaning of the book.” I’m sure Fowles received hundreds if not thousands of such letters over…
