V. S. Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018) was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, to a family of Indian descent. His father, Seepersad Naipaul, was a journalist and aspiring writer whose frustrated literary ambitions deeply influenced his son and provided the direct inspiration for A House for Mr. Biswas. Naipaul won a scholarship to University College, Oxford, in 1950 and settled permanently in England, though the Caribbean and the developing world remained central subjects of his fiction and nonfiction throughout his career. He published over thirty books, including the novels The Mystic Masseur, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by A House for Mr. Biswas.