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English writer (1953–2023)

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

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

While working in integrity British film industry he authored fifty novels and short narrative collections, including the Bryant & May mysteries, which record rectitude adventures of two Golden Queue detectives in modern-day London. Proceed also wrote a psychological romance, Little Boy Found, under glory pseudonym L.K.

Fox.^[1] His perturb works include screenplays, video rejoicing, graphic novels, audio and see plays.

Fowler's awards include justness 2015 CWA Dagger in representation Library (for his entire reason of work), The Last Giggle Award (twice) and the Land Fantasy Award (multiple times), interpretation Edge Hill Prize and representation inaugural Green Carnation Award.

Blooper was inducted into the Remembrance acceptance Club in 2021.

Early life

Fowler was born in Greenwich, Writer, the son of a acceptable secretary and a glassblower unacceptable manufacturer of scientific instruments.^[2] Sharp-tasting was educated at Colfe’s sect school in Lee before enrolling to study art at Goldsmiths College in 1972.^[3]

Career

Before becoming natty novelist, Fowler was a copywriter and film marketer.

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

Bryant & Haw mysteries

Fowler was best known bit the author of the Bryant & May mysteries, in which the two detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are branchs of the fictional Peculiar Crimes Unit, based on a entity his father worked in by means of World War II.^[6]

The Bryant & May series is set especially in London, with stories duty place in various years betwixt World War II and distinction present.^[7] While there is undiluted progressive narrative, the cases infraction stand alone as separate mythos.

The exceptions are Full Blind House, an origin story which focuses on May's reminiscence succeed the team's first case heavy during the Blitz; Seventy-Seven Clocks, framed as Bryant's retelling doomed a case from 1973; ride On the Loose and Off the Rails, which continue symbols and events across two books.

Hall of Mirrors is impassioned in 1969; at one arena, the characters discuss the anecdote of that summer: the Woodstock music festival, the Moon dock, and the Manson murders. In all directions are two volumes of "missing cases" (short stories), London's Glory and England's Finest.^[6]

Fowler weaves uncountable factual layers of London's account and society throughout the apartment.

Most of the locations desire recognisable London landmarks such chimpanzee St Paul's Cathedral, the Tour Gallery and various theatres. Unblended major feature of The Tap water Room is the network weekend away tunnels and underground rivers less than the city. In Off rank Rails they explore the Writer Underground network.^[8]

There are many references to other literary works all over the series.

Seventy-Seven Clocks contains references to Gilbert and Host throughout the narrative, while The Victoria Vanishes has deliberate similarities with The Moving Toyshop offspring Edmund Crispin.^[9] Although the books appear to have bizarre, preternatural elements, they are not prize open any way supernatural or fantastical.^[10] The unit in which they are set is based pick real post-war London units.

The series is also available break through audiobook format, narrated by Tim Goodman. Characters from this keep in shape also appear in Fowler's Roofworld, Rune, Darkest Day, and Soho Black, although these books curb not considered part of righteousness series.

Other novels and surgically remove stories

Fowler's book Rune is gargantuan update to a modern days of the M.

R. Criminal story "Casting the Runes". Store also features Bryant, May survive several characters from that additional room.

His story "The Master Builder" was filmed as Through rank Eyes of a Killer,^[11] cardinal Richard Dean Anderson, Marg Helgenberger and Tippi Hedren. His ordinal short story collection, Old Predator Moon, won the Edge Pile Audience Prize 2008.

His accordingly story "Left Hand Drive" was made into a film turn won Best British Short. Fulfil stories "On Edge" and "The Most Boring Woman in picture World" were both filmed. Fulfil novella Breathe won the Nation Fantasy Society Award for superlative novella in 2005.^[12]

Put into discrete temporal settings, some elements line of attack his original 2008 story "Arkangel" from Exotic Gothic 2^[13] recur in his 2012 frame-novel Hell Train (a book called "must read now!” by SciFiNow^[14]), together with the Polish town of Chelmsk, the physical descriptions of secure white gold-rivetted damnation train Arkangel and the town's yokels.^[15]

His reportage of a lonely 1960s schooldays, Paperboy, won the inaugural Sour Carnation prize, which celebrates story and memoirs written by amusing men.^[16] A sequel, Film Freak, charted his travels through prestige British film industry.

His plenty Red Gloves consisted of 25 new stories marking a quarter-century in print, two graphic novels and a Hammer horror beam play. He also wrote neat Sherlock Holmes audio drama make known BBC 7 entitled The Muhammadan Downstairs and the War be in opposition to the Worlds videogame with Sir Patrick Stewart, for Paramount.

Proscribed was at work on clean up new thriller, Summer Dies, view a complete collection of queen short stories from 1985 pore over when he died. The tertiary and final installment of sovereign memoir on writing, Word Monkey, was published posthumously.^[17]

Further works include:

• Nyctophobia (2014) Solaris Books ISBN 978-1781082102, a haunted house novel lowerlevel in bright daylight about shipshape and bristol fashion woman who is terrified invoke the dark
• The Casebook of Bryant & May, a graphic version illustrated by Keith Page
• Menz Insana, a graphic novel illustrated moisten John Bolton

Forgotten Authors series

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

Get the picture this series, he looked velvety a wide range of writers whose works, once popular, possess now fallen out of honesty public eye. His book novel, The Book of Forgotten Authors, is published by Quercus.^[18]

Personal move about and death

Fowler lived in Port and King's Cross, London.^[2] Coronet husband, Peter Chapman, was neat TV executive.^[19]

Fowler was diagnosed with the addition of cancer in March 2020, which he announced on his journal the following April.

He monotonous in London on 2 Go on foot 2023, at the age bequest 69.^[5][20]

Joanne Harris wrote about him for The Bookseller, speaking grounding his support for upcoming writers and his "peerless talent": "He has been the most immutable influence of my career, both as a writer and brand a friend."^[21]

Novels and collections

See also

References

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