James S. Bell Junior Middle School Etobicoke as the Borough of Etobicoke. In June 1967 the staff gave Mr. Gibbs a retirement party which was attended by a great number of people who had been on the James S. Bell staff over the years. Mr. Gibbs was presented with a matching set of luggage. On June 29. 1967 Mr Gibbs retired after forty years of school service, twenty-one of them as the principal of James S. Bell. At the same time Mr. Yeandle, the vice principal, left to become principal of Parkview School and thirteen of the staff of thirty left teaching or transferred to other
The World Is What It Is in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the "New York Times Book Review" as one of the "Times"' "10 Best Books of 2008". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in