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Drawing on his journal, personal letters, and interviews, a biography of celebrated novelist John Fowles examines his rise to success as one of the twentieth century's most important writers, his literary influence, and his works.
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This story of Fowles's life and its reflection in his work is told for the first time in this biography. Drawing on unprecedented access to sixty years of the writer's unedited private diaries; to searching interviews with his family, friends, and associates; to his drafts and unpublished works; to Fowles's intimate personal correspondence and a lifetime's confessional letters by his first wife, Elizabeth, Eileen Warburton provides a detailed, authoritative portrait of the troubled and triumphant man who became one of the twentieth century's most important writers.
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