P.H. Newby
1918–1997
English novelist and broadcasting administrator, born in Crowborough, Sussex. During the Second World War he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France and Egypt, then taught English literature at King Fouad University in Cairo until 1946. His first novel, A Journey to the Interior, appeared soon after the war, and Mariner Dances won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1948. Egypt shapes much of his fiction, including Picnic at Sakkara. He joined the BBC in 1949 and became managing director of BBC Radio. He died in September 1997. Something to Answer For won the 1969 Booker Prize.
Works
- Something to Answer For (1968)
Prizes
- Something to Answer For — The Booker Prize 1969: Winner, Shortlist