![]() ![]() The turning point may well have been the Granada production of The Jewel in the Crown in 1983, which significantly widened readership of Scott’s novels.īeginning in 1964, Scott negotiated with the Harry Ransom Research Center at The University of Texas–Austin for the purchase of his manuscripts. Scott’s literary reputation was already considerable when, at the age of 44, he embarked on The Raj Quartet that would take up the last fourteen years of his life-a masterpiece that reinterpreted the major events of his generation and challenged his contemporaries to face the legacy of their past.ĭespite post-war readers’ obdurate resolve to ignore their imperial past and allow its former empire to disappear (in Scott’s words) “into the mists of territorial fragmentation and dangerous racial memory,” his thirteen novels are finally receiving their due attention in the U.K., the U.S., and India itself. Yet by the time he had published The Jewel in the Crown in 1966, he had supported his family on his writing for six years, worked as a literary advisor for several publishers, routinely written book reviews for The Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and Country Life, and published eight novels. ![]() If novelist Paul Mark Scott (1920–1978) has secured a niche in English literature, it is on the merits of his Raj Quartet and its sequel, Staying On, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1977. ![]()
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