John Fowles was an English novelist positioned between modernism and postmodernism, whose work drew on the existentialist influence of Sartre and Camus. His best-known novels include The Magus (1965) and The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), a postmodern Victorian romance set in Lyme Regis, where Fowles spent much of his life. His books have been translated into numerous languages and several adapted for film.
