In case you wondered …

… Why Is Booker Prize Winner Stanley Middleton Forgotten? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

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.