Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (1915-02-11)11 February 1915 London, England
Died
10 June 2011(2011-06-10) (aged 96) Dumbleton, England
Occupation
Author, scholar and soldier
Nationality
British
Genre
Travel
Notable works
A Time of Gifts, Abducting a General
Notable awards
Knight Bachelor; Distinguished Service Order; Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Spouse
Joan Eyres-Monsell
(m. 1968; died 2003)
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1940–1946
Rank
Major
Battles/wars
Second World War
Awards
Distinguished Service Order Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh FermorDSO OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot.[1] He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War,[2] and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977).[3] A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".[4]
^Sir Max Hastings first met Leigh Fermor in his early twenties: "Across the lunch table of a London club, hearing him swapping anecdotes, in four or five languages, quite effortlessly, without showing off. I was just jaw-dropped." bbc.com.
^Cite error: The named reference telegraph-obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Smith, Helena "Literary legend learning to type at 92", The Guardian (2 March 2007).
^Woodward, Richard B. (11 June 2011). "Patrick Leigh Fermor, Travel Writer, Dies at 96". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
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