Distinguished Writers' Series: Caryl Phillips March 29, 2011

Caryl Phillips is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in Leeds, U.K. He currently lives in New York. He is the author of numerous books of nonfiction and fiction, including Crossing the River, winner of the 1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, A Distant Shore, winner of the 2004 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, and Dancing in the Dark, winner of the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award.

He began his writing career in the theater. He has also written several dramas and documentaries for radio and television, including, in 1996, the three-hour film based on his own novel The Final Passage. He wrote the screenplays for the films Playing Away (1986) and the Merchant Ivory adaptation of V.S. Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur (2001).

This lecture will take place in Green Hall 237.