He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Fowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discov John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him. After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since." Fowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex.
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