{"name": "Christopher Fowler", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Christopher Fowler would make a good serial killer. He's charming and English and lives in a white penthouse with a view of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral, and you'd think butter wouldn't melt in his mouth until you read his dark urban fiction \u2014 17 novels and over 120 short stories so far.\r\n His \u0153uvre divides into black comedy, horror, mystery, the odd revolting death and a set of novels unclassifiable enough to have publishers tearing their hair out. Emerging from a film industry background, he has come painfully close to having movies made of his novels Roofworld, Spanky, Psychoville and Calabash, but oddly it was his short story \u201cThe Master Builder\u201d that became a film called Through the Eyes of a Killer, starring Tippi Hedren and Marg Helgenberger. \r\n He is currently writing the \u2018Bryant & May\u2019 mysteries, featuring two elderly, argumentative detectives, but his latest book, Paperboy is autobiographical. His graphic novel for DC Comics was the critically acclaimed Menz Insana.\r\n He also achieved three pathetic schoolboy fantasies, releasing a pop single, being used as the model for a Batman villain, and acting as a stand-in for James Bond."}, "photograph": "/static/files//311/OL249526A_photograph_1216574204095311.jpg", "entity_type": "Writer", "personal_name": "Christopher Fowler", "alternate_names": ["CHRISTOPHER FOWLER"], "photos": [3364376], "birth_date": "1953", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "84038874", "wikidata": "Q959699", "isni": "0000000109201237", "imdb": "nm0288680", "lc_naf": "n85109053", "goodreads": "3912"}, "links": [{"title": "Website", "url": "https://christopherfowler.co.uk", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "death_date": "3 March 2023", "key": "/authors/OL249526A", "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T20:05:56.981486"}}