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V. S. Naipaul (born 1932) was one of the foremost spokespersons in English prose of the post-colonial Third World. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born August 17, 1932, in Trinidad, where his grandfather, an indentured worker, had come from India. An a...

"Half the writer's work . . . is the discovery of his subject." With this statement V. S. Naipaul declares his purpose as a writer and the object of his craft—the imaginative shaping of experience into an affecting and intelligent narrative that re...

V. S. Naipaul is both one of the most highly regarded and one of the most controversial of contemporary writers. Widely admired in North America and Europe for the lucidity of his prose style, his incisive travel journalism, and his ironic accounts of co...

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul The descendent of East Indian indentured servants, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad. His father, Seepersad Naipaul (1906- 53), was a journalist and an aspiring writer...

A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. It is the story of Mr Mohun Biswas, an Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries into the...

HOUSING IS the costliest item in the budgets of most families. That may be one of the reasons why the government over the years has done such a poor and uneven job of subsidizing it. In recent years the mismatch-aid insufficient to overcome need-has...

PRESIDENT CLINTON was right to seize an opportunity to meet with Chinese democracy advocate Wei Jingsheng, despite warnings from the Chinese regime that such a meeting should not take place. In the past, Mr. Clinton has shown some uncertainty about whether he or Chinese...