"Would it promote the peace of the community, or the stability of the government to have half a dozen men who had had credit enough to be raised to the seat of the supreme magistracy, wandering among the people like discontented ghosts, and sighing for a place which they were destined never more to possess?"
- Alexander Hamilton, speaking of ex-presidents
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Frank Wilson says A.S. Byatt is the greatest living British author. As you may know by now, I don't have the experience to argue this point. (What did they teach me in that school I attended?)
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2. Dale
- 02/19/2007 2:03 pm EST
I have read precious little work by modern British authors, but I cannot conceive that Byatt (whose Possession I read many years ago) is a greater author than V. S. Naipaul, who is, I believe, an English citizen though born in Trinidad. He won the Nobel Prize a few years ago.
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Just my personal choice, Phil. There's lots to pick from. Thanks for the kind words and links.