Francis Guy Percy Wyndham FRSL (2 July 1924 – 28 December 2017)[1] was an English author, literary editor and journalist.
[2] He graduated from Eton in 1940, spent a year at Oxford University and then was drafted into the army in 1942 until it was discovered he was suffering from TB.
He was discharged and returned to London, where he began writing reviews for The Times Literary Supplement and short stories (collected in Out of the War).
From 1953 he worked in publishing, first for Derek Verschoyle and then for André Deutsch as a reader (where he became involved with the writing careers of, and friends with, Bruce Chatwin, V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys and Edward St Aubyn).
He left to become an editor at Queen magazine and in 1964 was hired by The Sunday Times (moving with his friend Mark Boxer), where he stayed until 1980.