Something to Answer For certain he is really dead, then apparently actually does so. At the end of the novel, though it is uncertain how much of what was related actually took place or how much was a fever or drunken dream, Townrow comes to believe that a citizen is not responsible for the morality of his government and has only himself and his own actions to answer for. Something to Answer For Something to Answer For is a 1968 novel by the English writer P. H. Newby. Its chief claim to fame is that in 1969 it won the inaugural Booker Prize, which
Edward W. B. Newby Company H of the First Cavalry Regiment, the first in the U. S. Army. As such he served on the plains in Kansas and in New Mexico Territory. Newby served in 1856, on duty to keep order in Kansas Territory during the troubles in Bloody Kansas. He served in the 1857 Cheyenne Expedition and the Battle of Solomon Forks. He later served in the Kiowa and Comanche Campaign of 1860. At the beginning of the American Civil War, Newby was transferred to the U. S. Fourth Cavalry Regiment, on August 3, 1861. On July 17, 1862 he was promoted major,