This author described his journeys to the Islamic world in Beyond Belief and Among the Believers, and gained renown for a novel about Mohun's quest to own a home.
Paul Theroux detailed this author's monomaniacal behavior in a book named for this writer's "shadow." Derek Walcott called this author "a rodent in old age" in "The Mongoose," a poem written in retaliation for this author's dismissal of Walcott in the first chapter of A Writer's People. This author wrote "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it" as the opening line of a novel about a dictator who imprisons the Indian narrator Salim. This author described his journeys to the Islamic world in Beyond Belief and Among the Believers, and gained renown for a novel about Mohun's quest to own a home. For 10 points, name this author of A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas.
Paul Theroux detailed this author's monomaniacal behavior in a book named for this writer's "shadow."
Sir V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) {Naipaul}