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Jasper Fforde

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Biography

Fforde was born in London in 1961.

Fforde initially worked in the film industry; he served as an assistant cameraman for such films as Quills, The Saint, and The Mask of Zorro.

He wrote when he could, finishing four rejected novels before he found a publisher for The Eyre Affair, the first of a series of novels set in an alternate time line and featuring Thursday Next, a literary detective and her interactions with criminal masterminds and characters from the world of books.

He has recently embarked on a series of mysteries based on nursery rhyme characters. The first novel in this series, The Big Over Easy (2005), focuses on the possible murder of Humpty Dumpty.


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Influences
On his web site, Fforde says that his first Thursday Next novel was inspired by the "unanswered questions" in the plots of Victorian novels.
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Style
Fforde's novels are full of puns and literary allusions.
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Major Works
  • The Eyre Affair (2001)
  • The Well of Lost Plots (2002)
  • Lost in a Good Book (2003)
  • Something Rotten (2004)
  • The Big Over Easy (2005)
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Further Exploration
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  • Fforde Grand Central, the author's portal site with links to the author's other sites
  • The Goliath Corporation, the official web site of the Goliath Corporation featured in the Thursday Next novels
  • Nursery Crime, a site devoted to Fforde's nursery crime series
  • SpecOps, a site focusing on Fforde's fictional Special Operations Network
  • Swindon, containing photos of the city of Swindon as it appears in the Thursday Next novels
  • Thursday Next, a site devoted to Thursday Next
 
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