A brief survey of the short story part 9:
VS Pritchett
The prolific VS Pritchett captured the extraordinary strangeness ordinary life - but who remembers him today?
Friday 22 February 2008 17.15 GMT
Victor Sawdon Pritchett, or VSP, as he preferred to be known (he loathed his Christian name), exemplifies the gap that can yawn between reputation and readership. Hugely productive throughout his 97-year life as a short story writer, essayist, biographer, autobiographer and novelist, he is little read just 11 years after his death.
