Paul Scott (novelist) and John Braine. Extensive collection of letters to correspondents and their responses, University of Tulsa McFarlin Library Paul Scott (novelist) Paul Mark Scott (25 March 19201 March 1978) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy "The Raj Quartet." His novel "Staying On" won the Booker Prize for 1977. Paul Scott was born in Palmers Green, in Southgate, London, then in Middlesex, the younger of two sons. His father, Thomas (1870–1958), was a Yorkshireman who moved to London in the 1920s and was a commercial artist specializing in furs and lingerie. His mother, Frances, née
Richard Bradford (novelist) Richard Bradford (novelist) Richard Bradford (1932—2002) was an American novelist, best known for his 1968 novel "Red Sky at Morning", a film version of which was released in 1971. He also wrote "So Far from Heaven", a novel about the adventures of a disillusioned executive who flees his life in the city for a New Mexico cattle ranch. The son of Roark Bradford, he was born in Chicago. He resided in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the time of his death. Editor's Note from "Red Sky At Morning": Commenting on his inclusion in Twentieth Century Western Writers, Richard Bradford wrote