Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including A View of the Empire at Sunset , The Lost Child , Crossing the River , and Color Me English . His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and Dancing in the Dark the PEN Open Book Award. His other honors include a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a...See more
Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including A View of the Empire at Sunset , The Lost Child , Crossing the River , and Color Me English . His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and Dancing in the Dark the PEN Open Book Award. His other honors include a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York. See less