Winner of Britain's Literary Prize at Eighty

Dr. MacColl has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the book he wrote on the life of Wilson Steer, the most celebrated painter. Dr. MacColl, who is 86 years old, is a well-known art critic, and was one of the founders of the national literary collections fund in Britain.

The prize consists of two annual awards of £250 each, granted for the best book of biography or of fiction. The judge is the professor of English at the University of Edinburgh, and the most recent winners of the fiction prize were Robert Graves, Forrest Reid, Macdonell, and Mary Lavin.