Caryl Phillips (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Born in St. Kitts, Caryl Phillips was raised in England, where his family moved shortly after his birth. They originally settled in Leeds. Throughout Phillips’s developmental years he lived in a variety of working-class neighborhoods and attended predominantly white schools. His status as a racial minority contributed to his later concern with migration and identity. The civil unrest that occurred in London in 1976, when police and blacks clashed, sharpened his understanding of racial difference.
At Queens College, Oxford University, Phillips initially focused on courses in...
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