Duncan Fallowell

Duncan Fallowell (born 1948) is an English novelist, travel writer, memoirist, journalist and critic. 2Early life Fallowell was born on 26 September 1948 in London. His family later moved to Somerset and Essex before settling in Berkshire. While at St Paul's School, London, he established a friendship with John Betjeman, and through him, links to literary London. In 1967 he went to Magdalen College, Oxford (BA and MA in History). At the university he was a pupil of Karl Leyser, Hugh Trevor-Roper and Howard Colvin. He was also part of a group experimenting with psychedelic drugs. While an undergraduate he became a friend of the trans-sexual April Ashley, whose biography he later wrote.) and familiar with the "Chelsea Set" of Swinging London. 2Career In 1970, at the age of 21, Fallowell was given a pop column in The Spectator. He was subsequently the magazine's film critic and fiction criti