Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style.
He has written for The Guardian , The Believer , The Nation , Foreign Policy , and The New York Review of Books , among other publications..
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a doctoral student in geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
He was knighted in 2004 for his services to literature and to British-Greek relations.
He lived partly in Greece--in the house he designed with his wife, Joan, in an olive grove in the Mani--and partly in Worcestershire.
He was awarded the DSO and OBE.
In the Second World War he joined the Irish Guards, became a liaison officer in Albania, and fought in Greece and Crete.
His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places.
After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues Through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago.
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style
