Roger Lewis
Roger Lewis is a Welsh academic, biographer and journalist.Biography
Lewis was raised in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, and educated at Bassaleg School in Newport. He then attended the University of St Andrews before studying further at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1984.
Lewis has written books on Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and the Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey.
Writing a book review for the Daily Mail in August 2011, Lewis expressed a dislike of the Welsh language, calling it an "appalling and moribund monkey language". Plaid Cymru politician Jonathan Edwards reported Lewis's comments to the police and to the Press Complaints Commission.
In 2014 comments about lesbians Lewis made in a Spectator article led to publishers Biteback Publishing withdrawing an offer of a book deal.Books
