V.S. Naipaul

TrinidadianAugust 17, 1932 – August 11, 2018Non-Fiction

Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning writer whose essays and travel writing documented postcolonial societies with unflinching clarity. The Middle Passage, An Area of Darkness, and Among the Believers are his finest nonfiction works. His uncompromising honesty—and his cruelty—made him one of the most controversial writers of his era.

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