Background
He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool, Lancashire.
solicitor university professor writer poet
He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool, Lancashire.
He worked as a lawyer (solicitor) for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946. was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s. As a poet he became identified, on stylistic grounds, with The Movement.
He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1968-1973.
In 1966 Anthony Powell dedicated to Fuller his novel The Soldier"s Art, the eighth volume of his masterwork, A Dance to the Music of Time.
(Savage Gold, A Story of Adventure: PS104)