Francis David Egerton (born 21 September 1959) is a British novelist from the

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. Writing as "Frank Egerton", he works as a tutor of creative writing at

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and an Oxford University librarian. He reviewed fiction and non-fiction for newspapers including ''

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'' and ''

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'' from 1995–2008.

Family

Egerton is a great-great-great-grandson of

Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, (1 January 1800 – 18 February 1857), known as Lord Francis Leveson-Gower until 1833, was a British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts. Ellesmere Island, a major island (10th in size am ...

, second son of

George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland KG, PC (9 January 175819 July 1833), known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower from 1786 to 1803 and as the Marquess of Stafford from 1803 to 1833, was an English politi ...

. He is in the line of succession to the Sutherland dukedom. He is married to Jess and lives in

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Career

Frank Egerton originally qualified as an Associate of the

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. He gave up his job as a land agent to sit Oxbridge and read English at

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. He is interested in "both the close examination of fiction and how recent technologies such as ebooks and print-on-demand are changing the publishing industry and offering fresh opportunities to writers." His first novel, ''The Lock'', was published in paperback in 2003 and his second, ''Invisible'', was published by StreetBooks in 2010. The ebook version of ''The Lock'' reached the finals of the Independent e-Book Awards in Santa Barbara in 2002. In ''The Times'' review of ''Invisible'' Kate Saunders commented on "the author’s lively wit and acute understanding of the emotional landscape." He is a member of the

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, Writers in Oxford and the

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, and is a former editor of ''The Oxford Writer''. He was Chair of Writers in Oxford from 2008 to 2010.

About Frank Egerton

* Gill Oliver ''Interview with Frank Egerton''

References

External links

*
justthoughtsnstuff.com

www.burkespeerage.com
1959 births Living people 21st-century British novelists People educated at Stowe School Alumni of the Royal Agricultural University Alumni of Keble College, Oxford British male novelists

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