Roy Lewis
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Ernest Michael Roy Lewis was an English writer, a novelist of alternative histories and a small-press printer.
The majority of the books that Lewis wrote or edited, often jointly, were non-fiction and closely related to his journalism. However, he is best known for his 1960 novel The Evolution Man, which went through six editions under a number of titles. This comic fiction purports to be a first-hand account by the son of the first man to discover fire. To prevent further “advances”, the family takes matters in hand, leading to a conclusion given away by the book’s eventual subtitle, “How I ate my father”.
Though the book was marketed as science fiction, Lewis demurred that his true intention was to write “something between a parable and a fantasy”.[4] Much later, the story line of the 2015 film Animal Kingdom: Let’s Go Ape was loosely based on the book.[5])
