Roger Lewis is a Welsh academic, biographer and journalist.
Background
He has written a biography of Anthony Burgess, which prolific author and essayist Tim Conley described thus: "Lewis at work here is like nothing so much as an adolescent publicly masturbating on the exhumed corpse of his father, and thinking this performance the acme of wit.".
Education
Lewis was raised in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, where he was educated at Bassaleg School. He then attended the University of Street Andrews (Master of Arts) before studying further at Magdalen College, Oxford (Master of Letters).
Career
He became a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1984. Lewis has also published books on Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and the Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey (Charles Hawtrey: the man who was Private Widdle, 2001). Lewis was sacked by his publisher, Biteback, for saying "that you can always spot a lesbian by her big thrusting chin.
Celebrity Eskimo Sandi Toksvig, Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster, Clare Balding, Vita Sackville-West, God love them: there’s a touch of Desperate Dan in the jaw-bone area, no doubt the better to go bobbing for apples." 1108 pages.