P. H. Newby P. H. Newby Percy Howard Newby CBE (25 June 1918 – 6 September 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel "Something to Answer For" having received the inaugural award in 1969. P.H. Newby, known as Howard Newby, was born in Crowborough, Sussex on 25 June 1918 and was educated at Hanley Castle Grammar School in Worcestershire, and St Paul's College of Education in Cheltenham. In October 1939 he was sent to France to serve in World War II as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps. His
Kate Newby Gambia Castle. She is represented in New York by the Laurel Gitlen gallery and in Auckland by Michael Lett. Work by Newby is held by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. In 2012 Newby won the Walters Prize with her work "Crawl out your window" (first shown at Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen). Newby held a residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York, funded by Creative New Zealand. In 2013, she was an artist-in-residence at Fogo Island Arts. Artist files for Kate Newby are held at: Kate Newby Kate Newby (born 1979) is an artist