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 finally established him as a serious writer in the eyes of...

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 a distinguished series of novels for twenty-five...

PAUL SCOTT A Life of the Author of the Raj Quartet By Hilary Spurling. W. W. Norton, illustrated, 438 pp., $24.95 Five years after he died in 1978, Paul Scott became an international celebrity when his novels called "The Raj...

Francine Weinbaum was among the earliest academic critics of Paul Scott. As a graduate student writing a dissertation on his work, she invited him to lecture at the University of Illinois in 1975, where he met her thesis advisor, Bernard Benstock, who in...

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 Scottish literary greats.The late 19th century poet's work is so...

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 results and said the report on the Web site of French newspaper L'Equipe...