Dec. 6, 2001A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR: On the Monday morning that Mr. Naipaul and I began our conversation, he was in a Chicago hotel room. By that morning he had been in the United …
March 12, 2025
![Naipaul: "I think we were asked to do that [to write thank-you note to Somerset Maugham]. And I did. Then there came his reply from Claridge’s Hotel in London."](https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img/photos/2025/03/07/V.S.Naipaul_t670_t670.png?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d)
Naipaul: "I think we were asked to do that [to write thank-you note to Somerset Maugham]. And I did. Then there came his reply from Claridge’s Hotel in London."
Posted March 7, 2025
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