John Fowles
/ˌdʒɒn ˈfaʊlz/
/ˌdʒɑːn ˈfaʊlz/
- (1926-2005) an English writer who wrote successful novels in a wide range of styles, four of which were made into films, including 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 a film based on the book, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter, appeared in 1981.