Booker Prize prize, and a winner is chosen. Unlike the real Man Booker (1969 through 2014), writers from outside the Commonwealth are also considered. In 2008, the winner for 1948 was Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country", beating Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead", Graham Greene's "The Heart of the Matter" and Evelyn Waugh's "The Loved One". In 2015, the winner for 1915 was Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier", beating "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (John Buchan), "Of Human Bondage" (W. Somerset Maugham), "Psmith, Journalist" (P. G. Wodehouse) and "The Voyage Out" (Virginia Woolf). Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction
P. H. B. Lyon Bureau to find jobs for ex-public school boys. In 1918 he published a volume of poetry, "Songs of Youth & War", and in 1923 "Turn Fortune". In 1931 a selection of his verse was published as "P. H. B. Lyon" in the Augustan Books of Poetry series. Poems by Lyon were anthologized in the following collections: P. H. B. Lyon Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon MC (1893–1986) was a 20th-century British poet and educator, a winner of the Newdigate Prize and headmaster of Rugby School from 1931 to 1948. Lyon studied at Oriel College, Oxford, publishing a number of lyrics in