Half a Life
by V. S. Naipaul

List Price: $13.00
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 037570728X
Publisher: Vintage Books

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971 (for In a Free State), and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.

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