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George Lamming was a Barbados-born novelist, essayist, and poet. He taught at universities around the world, including posts of Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke University and Visiting Professor at Brown University. His books include In the Castle of My Skin (1953), The Emigrants (1954), Of Age and Innocence (1958), and The Pleasures of Exile (1960).
One of the great political novels in modern ‘colonial’ literature -- Ngugi wa Thiong’o Natives of My Person' is undoubtedly George Lamming's finest novel. It succeeds in illuminating new areas of darkness in the colonial past that the colonizer has so far not dealt with, and in this sense it is a profoundly revolutionary and original work... George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche -- Jan Carew * New York Times *
