John Fowles

John Fowles was a British novelist who is one of the most important and innovative literary figures of the twentieth century. Born in 1926, he is best known for The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, and The Collector. The Collector is his chilling debut novel — the story of a lonely young man who kidnaps a beautiful art student and keeps her prisoner. The novel is a masterpiece of psychological suspense and was adapted into a William Wyler film. Fowles's fiction is celebrated for its intellectual ambition, its psychological depth, and its narrative innovation. Fowles died in 2005. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most intellectually ambitious and psychologically powerful British fiction of the twentieth century.