Caryl phillips biography of albert

          Caryl Phillips was born in the Caribbean and raised in England....

          A Brief Biography of Caryl Phillips

          David P. Lichtenstein '99, Brown University, Contributing Editor, Caribbean Web

          The Contemporary Authors confirms his rootlessness, listing three homes in three different countries under the would-be simple heading of "addresses".

          This elegiac novel tracks a West Indian man's life in London over decades, exploring the emotional cost of leaving home and being met by hatred and rejection.

          Caryl Phillips's life (and work), as he admits, in some ways has been defined by the water that separates England from the West Indies, North America from Africa. Born in St. Kitts on March 13, 1958, he moved to England after just one year.

          There he took an honors B.A. at Oxford and began his blossoming writing career. He has since taken up a home in Amherst as well, where he serves as writer in residence.

          Albert owes his financial success to his deception of his first wife Lynn, the white woman he impregnated so that her father would pay their passage to Britain.

        1. Albert owes his financial success to his deception of his first wife Lynn, the white woman he impregnated so that her father would pay their passage to Britain.
        2. Strange Fruit is a powerful study of a black family caught between two cultures; Where There is Darkness examines the plight of a West Indian man, Albert.
        3. Caryl Phillips was born in the Caribbean and raised in England.
        4. Caryl Phillips is widely regarded as one of the leading writers of his generation, and arguably Britain's foremost black novelist alive today.
        5. 'Caryl Phillips', Current Biography Yearbook, , ed.

          6. Phillips' talent has been recognized not just in the awards and fellowships he has received, but also in his recent appointment to the post of chief editor of the Faber and Faber Caribbean writers' series.

          Phillips' writing, like that of many West Indian writers, reflects the dualities inherent in his life.

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