BIB_ID
345587
Accession number
MA 8360.2
Creator
Fowles, John, 1926-2005.
Display Date
1997 Aug. 4.
Credit line
Man Booker Prize Collection. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund and the Drue Heinz Fund, 2010.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 21 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to Peter Straus in London.
Part of a collection of two John Fowles letters to Peter Straus.
Written on personal stationery.
Part of a collection of two John Fowles letters to Peter Straus.
Written on personal stationery.
Provenance
Booker Prize collection of Peter Straus.
Summary
Recalling the difficulties of judging the Booker Prize [in 1971] and his efforts with regards to V. S. Naipaul's entry [In a Free State]. Apologizing for being "so hopelessly vague about it all; so anti-big-bookseller" and offering to look for his written account of judging the Booker.
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