When Paul Scott was awarded Britain's premier literary award for fiction, the Booker Prize, in 1977 for his last novel, Staying On, it signified belated recognition for a writer who had been producing...
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Paul Scott's worldwide reputation as a novelist has emerged largely since his death in 1978 at the age of fifty-seven. The award of the Booker Prize for fiction in 1977 for his novel Staying On finall...
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The land that gave the world Robert Burns also has the dubious honor of producing the "world's worst poet." Now fans of the hapless William McGonagall are campaigning to put him in the pantheon of ...
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Tour de France champion Floyd Landis got more bad news Monday _ a report that follow-up tests on his backup urine samples found traces of synthetic testosterone.But he refused to confirm the result...
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In his newly published book, Tour de France champion Floyd Landis claims the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency spent so much money in an obsessed mission to nail him for drug violations, it passed on prosecu...
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Some examples of CIA misconduct described in 693 pages of documents released by agency Tuesday:One plot against Fidel Castro:CIA Office of Security Director Howard Osborn described a plot begun in ...
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Monica Ali is not a subscriber to the guest-worker school of fiction, the vaguely held assumption that what was born abroad should stick with and to its own kind. Like the rest of Europe, the pale ...
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Monica Ali is not a subscriber to the guest-worker school of fiction, the vaguely held assumption that what was born abroad should stick with and to its own kind. Like the rest of Europe, the pale ...
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Paul (Mark) Scott
Fans honor 'world's worst poet'
