caption death_date birth_place subject awards nationality birth_date spouse image article_title education name occupation
paul scott in 1977 01 march 1978 southgate , london novel booker prize british 25 march 1920 nancy edith avery paul scott.jpg paul scott -lrb- novelist -rrb-
 winchmore hill collegiate school paul m. scott literary agency
paul scott -lrb- novelist -rrb-

paul mark scott -lrb- 25 march 1920 in southgate , then in middlesex -- 1 march 1978 in london -rrb- was an english novelist , playwright , and poet , best known for his monumental tetralogy the `` raj quartet . ''
his novel `` staying on '' won the booker prize for 1977 .
