Currently, living in South London with his wife, Canadian photographer Charla Jones, Adam Foulds has come a long way in his thirty years on this planet. Born in 1974, on the border of London and Essex County, Foulds was a child of wonder. From an early age, Foulds found love in bird watching and natural history, believing he would grow up to become a zoologist (Wroe). Foulds attended Bancroft’s School in Woodford Green where at age fifteen he discovered his talent for writing, when a teacher suggested he wrote a piece for the school’s poetry club (Elgot; “Adam Foulds- UEA”). The teacher was so impressed by the work Foulds was producing that he encouraged him to keep hold of his drafts as one day scholars might be interested in him (Wroe).
Foulds went through the rest of his education, earning his bachelor’s degree at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, before going on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia (“Adam Foulds”). After graduating UEA, Foulds began the search for an agent, working in shops and offices in the meantime (“Adam Foulds- UEA”). While his university friends went off to become lawyers, doctors, and academics, Foulds found himself working as a forklift truck driver in a warehouse in Tufnell Park. However, he did not dislike the job as the manual work gave him time alone with his thoughts to create new ideas for his writing (Foulds). Foulds first novel (The Truth about These Strange Times) was published in 2007, six years after graduating UEA with his master’s degree in creative writing (“Adam Foulds”).
Foulds only has three published works, The Truth about These Strange Times, a novel published in 2007, The Broken Word, a narrative poem published in 2008, and The Quickening Maze, anothe...
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...aster of words, and will surely be remembered for his genius long after he is gone.
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