The Economist (US), November 19th, 2005
John Fowles, an English novelist, died on November 5th, aged 79
SLEEPLESS nights never troubled John Fowles. He welcomed them. In particular he liked the semi-conscious haze between slumber and waking, when the sights and sounds of dreams still hover within reach and can be captured. It was while he was in this state that his novels--which he always spoke of as independent beings, knowing and mysterious--would suddenly reveal themselves to him. He called it the hypnopompic.
In one such mood Mr Fowles's imagination conjured up a dark figure, a woman with grey eyes and lustrous red-brown hai...
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