For the architect, see Roger K. Lewis. For the American football player, see Roger Lewis (American football). For the historian, see Wm. Roger Louis.

Roger Lewis (born 26 February 1960) is a Welsh academic, biographer and journalist.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Controversies
• 4 Books
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Biography

Lewis was raised in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, and educated at B*aleg School in Newport. He then attended the University of St Andrews, graduating MA, then Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained the MLitt degree, both with first cl* honours. He became a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1984.

Lewis has written biographies of Peter Sellers (1994), Charles Hawtrey (2001), Anthony Burgess (2003), and Laurence Olivier (2007). His book on Sellers was dramatized by HBO as The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, which won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Personal life

Lewis is married, with children, and lives in Hastings, with a holiday apartment in Bad Ischl, Austria. He is a lover of good art and bullfighting.

Controversies

Writing a book review for the Daily Mail in August 2011, Lewis expressed a dislike of the Welsh language, calling it an "appalling and moribund monkey language". Plaid Cymru politician Jonathan Edwards reported Lewis's comments to the police and to the Press Complaints Commission.

In 2014 comments about lesbians Lewis made in a Spectator article led to publishers Biteback Publishing withdrawing an offer of a book deal.

Books

• Erotic Vagrancy. London: Quercus. 2017. ISBN:978-0-857-38172-9.
• What Am I Still Doing Here?. London: Coronet. 2011. ISBN:978-1-444-70868-4.
• Growing Up with Comedians. London: Century. 2010. ISBN:978-1-84413-808-1.
• Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as it is Lived. London: Short Books. 2009. ISBN:978-1-907595-00-4.
• The Real Life of Laurence Olivier. London: Arrow Books. 2007. ISBN:978-0-09-951366-7.
• Anthony Burgess. London: Faber and Faber. 2003. ISBN:978-0-571-21721-2.
• Charles Hawtrey 1914-1988: The Man Who Was Private Widdle. London: Faber and Faber. 2002. ISBN:978-0-571-21089-3.
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. London: Century. 1994.

References

External links

• www.telegraph.co.uk