Christopher fowler author biography page

English writer (1953–2023)

For other people named Christopher Fowler, see Christopher Fowler (disambiguation).

Christopher Fowler
Born	Christopher Robert Fowler (1953-03-26)26 March 1953 London, England
Died	2 March 2023(2023-03-02) (aged 69) London, England
Pen name	L. K. Fox
Occupation	Novelist
Period	1984–2022
Genre	Thriller, crime fiction
Notable works	Bryant & May Mysteries

Christopher Robert Fowler (26 March 1953 – 2 March 2023) was an English writer.

While working exertion the British film industry he authored banknote novels and short story collections, including ethics Bryant & May mysteries, which record justness adventures of two Golden Age detectives value modern-day London. He also wrote a emotional thriller, Little Boy Found, under the stage name L.K.

Fox.^[1] His other works include screenplays, video games, graphic novels, audio and mistreat plays.

Fowler's awards include the 2015 CWA Dagger in the Library (for his total body of work), The Last Laugh Confer (twice) and the British Fantasy Award (multiple times), the Edge Hill Prize and goodness inaugural Green Carnation Award.

He was inducted into the Detection Club in 2021.

Early life

Fowler was born in Greenwich, London, nobility son of a legal secretary and clean up glassblower and manufacturer of scientific instruments.^[2] Closure was educated at Colfe’s grammar school addition Lee before enrolling to study art hackneyed Goldsmiths College in 1972.^[3]

Career

Before becoming a penny-a-liner, Fowler was a copywriter and film trafficker.

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At the age of 26, he supported the film promotion company, The Creative Gathering, with producer Jim Sturgeon, producing trailers, posters and commercials for radio and TV.^[4] Forbidden wrote the tag-line for the 1979 sci-fi/horror movie Alien, "In space, no one jumble hear you scream".^[5]

Bryant & May mysteries

Fowler was best known as the author of honesty Bryant & May mysteries, in which primacy two detectives, Arthur Bryant and John Possibly will, are members of the fictional Peculiar Crimes Unit, based on a unit his cleric worked in during World War II.^[6]

The Bryant & May series is set primarily march in London, with stories taking place in distinct years between World War II and honesty present.^[7] While there is a progressive conte, the cases each stand alone as disperse stories.

The exceptions are Full Dark House, an origin story which focuses on May's reminiscence of the team's first case join forces during the Blitz; Seventy-Seven Clocks, framed importance Bryant's retelling of a case from 1973; and On the Loose and Off representation Rails, which continue characters and events bump into two books.

Hall of Mirrors is arrest in 1969; at one point, the code discuss the events of that summer: nobleness Woodstock music festival, the Moon landing, mount the Manson murders. There are two volumes of "missing cases" (short stories), London's Glory and England's Finest.^[6]

Fowler weaves many factual layers of London's history and society throughout glory series.

Most of the locations are recognizable London landmarks such as St Paul's Sanctuary, the Tate Gallery and various theatres. A-one major feature of The Water Room legal action the network of tunnels and underground rivers underneath the city. In Off the Rails they explore the London Underground network.^[8]

There stature many references to other literary works here and there in the series.

Christopher fowler bryant and possibly will books in order Christopher Fowler was decency award-winning author of many novels and wee story collections, and the Bryant & Can mystery novels: 21 books recording the treasure of two Golden Age detectives investigating improbable modern London crimes.

Seventy-Seven Clocks contains references to Gilbert and Sullivan throughout the fiction, while The Victoria Vanishes has deliberate similarities with The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin.^[9] Although the books appear to have weird, uncanny elements, they are not in mean way supernatural or fantastical.^[10] The unit meet which they are set is based vary real post-war London units.

The series enquiry also available in audiobook format, narrated lump Tim Goodman. Characters from this series besides appear in Fowler's Roofworld, Rune, Darkest Day, and Soho Black, although these books hook not considered part of the series.

Other novels and short stories

Fowler's book Rune equitable an update to a modern setting admonishment the M.

R. James story "Casting honesty Runes". It also features Bryant, May beginning several characters from that series.

His composition "The Master Builder" was filmed as Through the Eyes of a Killer,^[11] starring Richard Dean Anderson, Marg Helgenberger and Tippi Hedren. His tenth short story collection, Old Fiend Moon, won the Edge Hill Audience Affection 2008.

His short story "Left Hand Drive" was made into a film that won Best British Short. His stories "On Edge" and "The Most Boring Woman in illustriousness World" were both filmed. His novella Breathe won the British Fantasy Society Award fancy best novella in 2005.^[12]

Put into different earthly settings, some elements of his original 2008 story "Arkangel" from Exotic Gothic 2^[13] recoil in his 2012 frame-novel Hell Train (a book called "must read now!” by SciFiNow^[14]), including the Polish town of Chelmsk, class physical descriptions of its white gold-rivetted sin train Arkangel and the town's yokels.^[15]

His account of a lonely 1960s childhood, Paperboy, won the inaugural Green Carnation prize, which celebrates fiction and memoirs written by gay men.^[16] A sequel, Film Freak, charted his trip through the British film industry.

His hearten Red Gloves consisted of 25 new mythical marking a quarter-century in print, two clear novels and a Hammer horror radio chapter. He also wrote a Sherlock Holmes sensory drama for BBC 7 entitled The Dame Downstairs and the War of the Worlds videogame with Sir Patrick Stewart, for Chief.

He was at work on a additional thriller, Summer Dies, and a complete put in storage of his short stories from 1985 extremity when he died. The third and encouragement installment of his memoir on writing, Word Monkey, was published posthumously.^[17]

Further works include:

• Nyctophobia (2014) Solaris Books ISBN 978-1781082102, a haunted terrace novel set in bright daylight about smart woman who is terrified of the dark
• The Casebook of Bryant & May, a visual novel illustrated by Keith Page
• Menz Insana, simple graphic novel illustrated by John Bolton

Forgotten Authors series

Fowler wrote a periodic column for The Independent titled Invisible Ink.

In this additional room, he looked at a wide range persuade somebody to buy writers whose works, once popular, have at present fallen out of the public eye.

His book exchange, The Book of Forgotten Authors, is obtainable by Quercus.^[18]

Personal life and death

Fowler lived newest Barcelona and King's Cross, London.^[2] His bridegroom, Peter Chapman, was a TV executive.^[19]

Fowler was diagnosed with cancer in March 2020, which he announced on his blog the shadowing April.

He died in London on 2 March 2023, at the age of 69.^[5][20]

Joanne Harris wrote about him for The Owner, speaking of his support for upcoming writers and his "peerless talent": "He has anachronistic the most enduring influence of my employment, both as a writer and as neat as a pin friend."^[21]

Novels and collections

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