Caryl Phillips • Border Crossings

Wolf Humanities Center's 2006-2007 Forum on Travel
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in The Humanities
October 25, 2006
Caryl Phillips
Prize-winning Author and Playwright
Born on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, and educated at Oxford, Caryl Phillips has written for television, radio, theatre, and cinema, and is the author of three works of nonfiction and eight novels. Much of his writing has focused on displacement, especially the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade for the African Diaspora.
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