Margaret Murray Gooding collection of V.S. Naipaul papers

Collection

Identifier: 2023-020

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence from V.S. Naipaul to Margaret Murray Gooding, photographs, negatives, notes, clippings, ephemera, and correspondence between Naipaul and others.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found within 1972 - 1975

Creator

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 (Correspondent, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader.

Conditions Governing Use

This material is owned by the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections. Unpublished manuscripts are under copyright. Therefore, permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from both the repository and the copyright holder.

Biographical / Historical

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul was born on August 17, 1932. He was Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage. He is known for his novels that focused on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. In 2001 he won the Nobel Prize for literature. Naipaul died in 2018.