Authors A to Z

A range of scholars present provocative insights into some of the forgotten Caribbean writers whose lives and works merit future research.

Forgotten Caribbean Writers

Phillis Shand Allfrey (1908-1986)

Vera Bell (1906-1984)

Jesús Colón (1901-1974)

Oscar Dathorne (1934-2007)

Gloria Escoffery (1923-2002)

Alfred Fagon (1937-1986)

Beryl Gilroy (1924-2001)

Roy A.K. Heath (1926-2008)

Lewis Osborne Inniss (1848-1940)

Arnold Harrichand Itwaru (1942-2021)

A close up image of Evan Jones. This image is in black and white. Here he is a jacket and sweater.

Evan Jones (1927-2012)

Image of a yellow book. On the cover of the book is a man and a little boy walking together. The book is yellow with a red stripe at the bottom. The books title is written in red, "Guiana boy".

Peter Kempadoo (1926-2019)

Harold Sonny Ladoo (1945-1973)

Edwina Melville (1926-1993)

Elma Napier (1892-1973)

W.G. Ogilvie (c. 1923-?)

René Philoctète (1932-1995)

Ada Quayle (1920-2002)

Eula Redhead (1917-1983)

A.J. Seymour (1914-1990)

cover of these my people with group of individuals reaching toward trees

Claude Thompson (1907-1976)

Una Marson (1905-1965)

headshot of Hilton a Vaughan

Hilton A. Vaughan (1901-1985)

Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916-1973)

Emanuel Xavier (1971-)

Yrene Santos (1963-)

Joseph Zobel (1915-2006)

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