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
Robert Cohen (novelist) Robert Cohen (novelist) Robert Cohen (born 1957) is an American novelist and short fiction writer. Cohen grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. He attended UC Berkeley and subsequently received his MFA from Columbia University. Cohen's themes center around issues of contemporary identity and transcendence. His writing has been praised as "wild and ingenious" by "The New York Times", "formidable" by "The Atlantic Monthly", and "ruefully funny" by the "San Francisco Chronicle." DG Meyers of "A Commonplace Blog" writes, "Sentence by sentence, Robert Cohen is perhaps the best prose stylist of any American novelist now writing." His first novel, "The Organ