Who was the author of the 1938 novel 'Scoop'?
Scoop (novel) film of the same title. Directed by Gavin Millar and starring Michael Maloney and Denholm Elliott, it aired on 26 April 1987. The fictional newspaper in "Scoop" served as the inspiration for the title of Tina Brown's online news source, "The Daily Beast". In 2009 the novel was serialised and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Scoop (novel) Scoop is a 1938 novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents. William Boot, a young man who lives in genteel poverty, far from the iniquities of London, contributes nature notes to Lord Copper's
Scoop (novel) and philistinism..."Scoop" endures because it is a novel of pitiless realism; the mirror of satire held up to catch the Caliban of the press corps, as no other narrative has ever done save Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page"." "Scoop" was included in "The Observer"s list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked "Scoop" No. 75 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. "Scoop" was made into a 1972 BBC serial featuring Harry Worth. In 1987, William Boyd adapted the novel into a two-hour TV