Terence Wheeler

1936–2018

English writer, also published as T.E.R. Wheeler, born in Portsmouth and educated at Oxford, where he read English. After teaching in London he spent three years at a school in Pilani, Rajasthan, which shaped his early fiction. From 1968 he lectured in English at Christ Church College, Canterbury, and lived in Whitstable. His later novels were From Home in Heaven (1971) and The Wreck of the Rat Trap (1973), and he wrote BBC screenplays and short stories before giving up writing in 1982. He died in December 2018. The Conjunction, his first novel, was shortlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Terence Wheeler’s life

Works

• The Conjunction (1969)

Prizes

• The Conjunction — The Booker Prize 1970: Shortlist