Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, screenwriter, military personnel
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- February 11, 1915
- Died
- June 10, 2011
