Nobel Prize Writers

Tuesday 8 February 2011

1953 - Winston Churchill




 Winston Churchill once wrote a novel entitled The Inside of the Cup.  It’s an odd book for him to write, set in America involving discussions of faith, odd that is until you realise that it was not Churchill the Prime Minister but Churchill the American novelist who wrote it.  For a while I wasn’t sure.  I knew he achieved the Prize & so why can’t it have been for novels as well as for the charted document of history/ autobiography?  I had no idea there was another famous, at least somewhat well known, Churchill living around at the same time.  

 There must be an idea for a Borges type short story involving a conversation between the two Winstons who talk about power and publishing before one kills the other.  

 What are the chances?