William Boot

William Boot

William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel "Scoop."

Character

Boot is the young author of a regular column on country life for a London newspaper named the "Daily Beast". He is then sent abroad as a foreign correspondent to the fictional African state of Ishmaelia which is on the brink of a civil war, having been mistaken for a war reporter. Although he is completely inept, he accidentally gets the 'scoop' of the title.

Inspiration for character

It has been suggested that Waugh based the character of William Boot on his own experiences and on the legendary journalist Bill Deedes who was a junior reporter in Addis Ababa.

Television portrayals

*Michael Maloney played William Boot in a 1987 British television movie entitled "Scoop," produced by LWT.

*Harry Worth played the character in a 1972 BBC television series, which was an adaptation of the novel scripted by Barry Took.

External links

* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1070451,00.html Guardian analysis]


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