About
J. N. Fox
J. N. Fox is of Caribbean descent. She was born in Wiltshire and grew up in a small town there. Maternally she is related to Jamaicans who fought for Britain in both the first and second world wars. She lives in Oxford with her husband and writes full-time.
She has featured in the Sunday Times. Been the subject of a BBC Documentary and has written content for The Times and Telegraph.
She read mathematics at university. Her most renowned work The Battle of Ignorance Trilogy was inspired by a visit to the Oxford Science Museum where she was intrigued by mathematician John Dee’s Holy Table.
Here's to a brave & beautiful writer of life. Stay blessed.
Sir Ben Okri - Booker Prize Winner
John Dee
Elizabethan mathematician John Dee (1527–1609), believed that numbers were the basis of all things and the key to knowledge. That through mathematics mankind had the potential to access divine powers.
