Lamming, George William (1927– )

Barbadian novelist and poet. The autobiographical In the Castle of my Skin (1953) describes his upbringing in the small village where he was born. His imaginative explorations of Caribbean history and society sustain a political vision of a future resting with the common people and depending on the creative union of the minds of the artist and the politician. His Conversations: Essays, Addresses and Interviews was published in 1992.

After leaving school he moved to Trinidad in 1946, where he taught school. He moved to London in 1950 and became a broadcaster for the BBC Colonial Service in 1951.