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
John Murray (novelist) John Murray (novelist) John Murray (born 1950, Cleator Moor, Cumberland) is an English writer and novelist known for writing satirical novels on a range of subjects. He read Sanskrit at University College, Oxford. In 1984 he founded the fiction magazine "Panurge", which he edited with fellow author David Almond until 1996. Panurge Publishing published Julia Darling's debut collection of short stories, "Bloodlines" in 1995. Murray's first novel, "Samarkand", was published in 1985 and in 1988 he received the Dylan Thomas Award for his collection of stories, "Pleasure". In 2002 his novel "John Dory" won a Lakeland Book of the Year