Summary: This paper is about Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and his writing. V.S. Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in literature 2001 for his writings. He is an American Speak Caribbean. His writings deal with the cultural confusion of the Third World and will be discussed in this book. The paper will compare and contrast his fictional and documentary writings and the question as to if his documentary writing show a sense of growth and maturation. He has many works but only selected works will be used for purposes of this essay