Felix Francis

Felix Francis is a British novelist who carved his niche as a crime writer. He is also the son of renowned author Dick Francis, who was also a steeplechase jockey. In 1953, Dick Francis and wife Mary Margaret bore a child, Felix Francis. He enrolled at London University and pursued a degree in Physics and Electronics. Later, he taught Advanced Level Physics and also chaired the science department at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire. He worked as a vice chairman and director of the World Challenge Expeditions Ltd from 1993 to the year 2005. He is the former governor of Winchester House and Malvern College. Francis has a seventeen-year teaching experience; he quit the teaching profession in a bid to focus on managing his father’s activities.