Poetic Obituaries: [Stanley] Middleton was 38 when he published his

first novel, "A Short Answer," but then produced a new book nearly every year afterward.

"Holiday," which shared the Booker Prize with Nadine Gordimer's "The Conservationist," told of a man struggling with the death of his son and the decay of his marriage.

Middleton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998. In 1982 he was awarded a Judith E. Wilson Fellowship in Poetry at Cambridge University.

from Associated Press: Obituaries in the news: Stanley Middleton

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