![]() He brought his highly successful career as an accountant to a slightly premature end (he was already in his fifties, having been born in 1874) and settled down to be a man of letters, spending a further quarter of a century producing considerable numbers of books. In the years which followed Fowler Wright enjoyed considerable celebrity, being named in a Daily Express feature as one of 'the ten best brains in Britain'. Film rights to his novel 'Deluge' (1927), which he printed himself some seven years after writing it, were sold to Hollywood, and the US edition of the novel then became a bestseller. ![]() ![]() Sydney Fowler Wright is one of the few notable writers to have launched his literary career by self-publication and to have attained great - if temporary - success by that means. ![]() Fowler Wright by Brian Stableford Magazine And Book Collector ![]()
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