Novel in Scotland Disaffection" (1989) were among the first novels to fully utilise a working class Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's "Poor Things" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (b. 1958), "Trainspotting" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in contemporary Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (b. 1964) "Morvern Callar" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s "How Late It Was, How Late" (1994), a stream of consciousness novel dealing with a life of
Frank S. Welsh in Bryn Mawr, PA. In 2007 he received the Anne de Fort-Menares Award for his article about an analysis of paint and material in the Mobile, Alabama public library. He received the award again in 2008 for his article "Identification of 1850's Brown Zinc Paint Made with Franklinite and Zincite at the U.S. Capitol". Frank S. Welsh Frank Sagendorph Welsh (born February 11, 1950) is president of the U.S.-based Welsh Color and Conservation, Inc., a company that analyzes old paints and wallpapers; their pigments and fibers. Welsh grew up in Ardmore, Pennsylvania and graduated from West Chester University of Pennsylvania