Roger Lewis is a Welsh academic, biographer and journalist.Lewis was raised in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, where he was educated at Bassaleg School. 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 also 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 Lewis made in a Spectator article led to publishers Biteback Publishing withdrawing an offer of a book deal. In his review of a Dusty Springfield biography Lewis had said: "Call me a crazy old physiognomist, but my theory is that you can always spot a lesbian by her big thrusting chin. Celebrity Eskimo Sandi Toksvig, Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster, Clare Balding, Vita Sackville-West, God love them: there's a touch of Desperate Dan in the jaw-bone area, no doubt the better to go bobbing for apples."
Of rival candidate for the Oxford Chair of Poetry Michael Horovitz.
Evening Standard, Mon 31 Oct 2011, p16
Evening Standard, Mon 31 Oct 2011, p16
