Paul Scott
1920–1978
English novelist best known for The Raj Quartet, his four-novel sequence on the last years of British rule in India. Born in north London, he left school early to work as an accounts clerk and was commissioned in the Indian Army during the Second World War, serving in India, Burma and Malaya. He later worked as a literary agent before writing full time from 1960. He died of cancer in London in March 1978. Staying On, a coda to the quartet about a retired colonel and his wife who remain in India after independence, won the 1977 Booker Prize.
Works
- Staying On (1977)
Prizes
- Staying On — The Booker Prize 1977: Winner, Shortlist