Background
Egerton is a great-great-great-grandson of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, second son of George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland.
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Frank Egerton
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Keble College; Stowe School. Royal Agricultural University.
Career
Writing as "Frank Egerton", he works as a tutor of creative writing at Oxford University and an Oxford University librarian. He reviewed fiction and non-fiction for newspapers including The Times and Financial Times from 1995–2008. He is distantly in the line of succession to the Sutherland dukedom.
He gave up his job as a land agent to sit Oxbridge and read English at Keble College.
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. He was Chair of Writers in Oxford from 2008 to 2010.
Gill Oliver Interview with Frank Egerton.
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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 Society of Authors, Writers in Oxford and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and is a former editor of The Oxford Writer.
