Apropos of things inaugural, the Guardian offers a list of top 10 novel writing politicians.
4) Winston Churchill
Churchill was given the Nobel prize for literature in 1953, but the commendation did not mention his novel Savrola, A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, published half a century earlier. Much influenced by Anthony Hope's bestseller The Prisoner of Zenda, but without any of its entertaining characteristics, Savrola is the story of an imaginary land with parallels to Britain. The righteous Savrola leads the struggle against an autocratic ruler. He wins.
Sen. James Webb of Virginia is a much better, and arguably more significant, novelist than Rep. Gingrich.
But it could be worse: The Guardian COULD have included Jeffrey Archer.
Posted by: Ron Hogan | January 21, 2009 at 07:55 PM