So was Byron Winton, a black investment banker from Chicago, who bought a phone from Wright.
Readers who are, like the narrator, adolescent might well enjoy Tim Winton's surf-and-turf tale.
Winton is in the midst of raising his second fund to invest in minority enterprises and urban revitalization projects.
"They carry a mantra in a time and place where it's no longer valid, " says Winton, a die-hard capitalist.
Winton Cooper moved to Dorset after his retirement to look after his elderly father and eventually his son came to stay.
The 12 pupils from the Glenmoor and Winton Federated Trust have been picked for Blue Skies by the Jon Egging Trust.
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Regarded as a national treasure in Australia, Mr Winton is skilful at conveying not only the thrill of surfing, but also its terrors.
The protagonists of writer Tim Winton's 2001 novel are a wealthy lobsterman, his wife and a lobster poacher with whom she has an affair.
He assembled 22 of the former Winton children in one of the pre-war carriages for a scene in his new version of the story.
David Spiegelhalter is Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University and a Senior Scientist in the Medical Research Council's Biostatistics Unit.
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On the fiction front, there were shout-outs for Tim Winton's much-loved Cloudstreet, Murray Bail's Eucalyptus, and Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning True History of the Kelly Gang.
Christopher McShane, head teacher of Winton School in Hampshire, described his school as having an overall lower-ability intake and made the case for the value of vocational qualifications.
"This is for-profit investment based on economic self-interest, " Winton insists.
Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns--so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.
Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns-so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.
"Many of these patients will not take advantage of the program, as they don't now with Pfizer's current Share Card program, " noted Winton Gibbons, a stock analyst at William Blair.
But in a note to investors this morning, Winton Gibbons, a health care analyst at William Blair, said he believes the probe probably relates to doctors using Rituxan for so-called off-label uses.
Likewise Tim Winton's and Robert Drewe's novels -often set along the southern coast of Western Australian - vividly evoke the primal sensuality of the surf and its ability to calm and inspire, but also destroy.
But the fiction writer whom Temple most reminded me of is his fellow Aussie, Tim Winton, perhaps because they both have a powerful talent for evoking both the setting and soul of Australia.
Former BBC Radio Sheffield presenter Winton Cooper was found by police at his cottage in Marnhull, near Sturminster Newton, on the 22nd anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, which he had reported on in 1989.
Then the Winton children will go their separate ways, but seven decades after the farewells in Prague, they have reaffirmed the ties that still bind them to the man who gave them a future.
When it comes to fiction, Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is probably the must-read novel, although I thought Breath was brilliant at making sense of the joy and wonder of surfing to people who have never ridden a wave.
Given that Mr Winton is now 47, he is remarkably in touch with the currents of a 15-year-old's emotional life, and towards the end of the novel does a marvellous job of fast-forwarding into the damaged adult that Pikelet will become.
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