Reclusive novelist dies at 79: “(The French Lieutenant’s Woman) and works such as The Collector, and the self-consciously allusive and playful The Magus (he described it to his wife as ‘a young person’s book’), have been widely influential. According to John Mullan, professor of English at University College London, Fowles established that: ‘A highly literary novel could also be a potential bestseller … he offered readers literary pleasure as well as the voltage they expected from contemporary fiction.'” (Guardian.UK)