My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
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Nationality: British Type: Politician Born: September 27, 1953 |
“I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.”
“I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.”