Duncan Fallowell is an English novelist, travel writer and critic. He was born in London September 26, 1948. His family later moved to Somerset and Essex before settling in Berkshire. While at St Paul's School he established a friendship with John Betjeman and, through him, links to literary London. In 1967 he went to Magdalen College, Oxford where he was a pupil of Karl Leyser, Hugh Trevor-Roper and Howard Colvin. He was also the focus of an esoteric circle using LSD. While an undergraduate he became a friend of the trans-sexual April Ashley and familiar with the 'Chelsea Set' of Swinging London. 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 critic. During the 1970s he travelled extensively in Europe, India and the Far East, collaborated on the punk glossies Deluxe and Boulevard, and worked with the avant-garde German group Can. In 1979 he edited a collection of short stories, Drug Tales, and in 1982 published his first book, April Ashley's Odyssey. This was followed by two novels, Satyrday and The Underbelly. [More at Wikipedia]

September 26th, 1948 in London (Age 76)