‘French Lieutenant’s Woman’ author John Fowles dies

British novelist John Fowles, who wrote the highly acclaimed novels The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus, has died, his publisher Jon...

British novelist John Fowles, who wrote the highly acclaimed novels The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Magus, has died, his publisher Jonathan Cape said on Monday. He was 79 .

“He died at the weekend. He had been ill for some time,” said a spokeswoman at the publishers said.

Fowles made his name internationally with the publication in 1969 of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a vivid Victorian pastiche that was later turned into a critically acclaimed film with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. 2005 Nobel laureate Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay for the film.

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Fowles had worked as a teacher before turning to writing full-time. His first novel in 1963 was The Collector about a young butterfly collector who kidnaps a young woman.

Among his other successful books was the 1960s cult novel The Magus, a complex and disturbing tale set on a Greek island.

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