Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature, V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad and educated in England. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. V. S. Naipaul has published more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, In a Free State (winner of the 1971 Booker Prize), A Bend in the River, An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, and Magic Seeds. His newest book, The Masque of Africa, is due out in October. Sir Vidia Naipaul lives in England with his wife, Nadira Naipaul.
At Colgate on Oct. 15, 2010