Stanley Middleton was a British novelist.
He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1919 and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham, and later at University College Nottingham.
Middleton started writing while at university and in 1958 published A Short Answer. Alongside his work as an author, he taught English at High Pavement Grammar School for many years. In 1974, his novel Holiday won the Booker Prize.[1] In 2008, Her Three Wise Men was published, his 44th novel and the last to be published during his lifetime.
