The World Is What It Is

The biography has been reviewed by The New York Times, Literary Review, The Independent, and The Times, among others. The reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography won unanimous praise from all quarters including Naipaul experts Teju Cole and James Wood in the New Yorker. Awards and honors The biography was selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the Times' "10 Best Books of 2008." It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. ==References==