Between Father and SonBy: V. S. Naipaul An extraordinary rich correspondence (The New York Times Book Review) between a seventeen year old aspiring writer at Oxford who would go on to become a Nobel Prize winning author and his sacrificing, beloved father. At seventeen, V. S. Naipaul wanted to "follow no other profession" but writing. Awarded a scholarship by the Trinidadian government, he set out to attend Oxford, where he encountered a vastly different world from the one