Francis Wyndham

Francis Guy Percy Wyndham (1924-2017) was an English author, literary editor, and journalist renowned for nurturing talents like V.S. Naipaul, Bruce Chatwin, and Jean Rhys, whose literary executor he became after her 1979 death. Literature. His late-blooming fiction career peaked with the 1987 Whitbread First Novel Award for The Other Garden, alongside notable works like Mrs Henderson and Other Stories (1985) and The Theatre of Embarrassment (1991). Awareness.