Middleton was an astonishingly prolific novelist and an artist working with Nottingham and its cast of characters as his backdrop. He was a musician too, playing the organ at St. Mark’s Methodist Church in Bulwell, and a painter — his watercolours grace the covers of many books, both those authored by himself and by others. And how about an “anti-elitist icon”? Middleton, like Philip Larkin and Evelyn Waugh, turned down an honour from the Queen recognising his services to literature.
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
In case you wondered …
… Why Is Booker Prize Winner Stanley Middleton Forgotten? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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