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LAWRENCE  SCOTT DATE OF BIRTH: 1944 PLACE OF BIRTH: ..., Trinidad EDUCATION: Mount St. Benedict School CAREER:                                 Growing up as a devout catholic, Scott joined the junior seminary at the age of 14 while attending Mount St. Benedict. He left Trinidad for England in January 1963 to become a Benedictine monk but ended up qualifying as a teacher in 1973. He taught English in a London school before returning to Trinidad in 1977 to teach at Presentation College and later at Aranguez Junior Secondary School. He returned to England for a short time between 1980 and 1982 and then, for good, during the mid-1980s when he began writing. The following is a listing of Scott's books: 1992 - Witchbroom 1994 - Ballad for the New World 1998 - Aelred's Sin 2004 - Night Calypso AWARD: 1986 - Tom Gallon Prize (for the story "The House of Funerals") 1999 - Commonwealth Writer's Prize (for "Aelred's Sin") Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit