Francis Wyndham

Francis Wyndham (1924–2017) was a British writer, literary critic and editor. He attended Eton College and studied at Oxford before being called up for military service in 1940. He was discharged after contracting tuberculosis. He subsequently wrote reviews for the Times Literary Supplement and later worked as an editor at André Deutsch and for the Sunday Times. His first novel, The Other Garden, received the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1987. Wyndham was also known as a supporter and close associate of several major writers, and helped bring renewed attention to the work of Jean Rhys.