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
Toby's Room and the plot has real momentum." In the "Times Literary Supplement", Mark Bostridge pointed out that the novel as whole owes much to the work of Vera Brittain, and that the fate of Toby Brooke, who killed himself rather than face a court-martial for homosexuality, is clearly based on what has been uncovered by Bostridge about the death of Vera Brittain's brother Edward Brittain, though Barker's novel does not acknowledge the source of the story. Toby's Room Toby's Room is English novelist Pat Barker's follow up novel to "Life Class" (2007). It continues to follow the fortunes of a group