John Fowles was an English novelist whose work sits between modernism and postmodernism, shaped by existentialist influences. Following the success of his debut The Collector (1963), he became a full-time writer, producing The Magus (1965), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), and A Maggot (1985). He later served as curator of the Lyme Regis Museum in Dorset, where he lived for most of his adult life.
