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Biography of John Fowles
John Robert Fowles was born March 31, 1926 in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town located about 40 miles from London in the county of Essex, England. He recalls the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional.
Of his childhood, Fowles says “I have tried to escape ever since.”
Fowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18.
John fowles brief biography of alberta
After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him.
Fowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discovered the writings of the French existentialists.
In particular he admired Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, whose writings corresp