Stanley Middleton

1919–2009

English novelist whose quiet, closely observed fiction is mostly set in and around Nottingham. Born in Bulwell, he was educated at High Pavement School and University College Nottingham, and taught English at High Pavement Grammar School for many years alongside his writing. His first novel, A Short Answer, appeared in 1958, and he went on to publish more than forty novels, among them Distractions, Two Brothers and Her Three Wise Men. He was also an organist and watercolourist, and declined an OBE in 1979. He died in 2009. Holiday shared the 1974 Booker Prize with The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer.

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