Caryl phillips biography of williams

          In an interview with Diane Rehm, Phillips evoked his fictionalization of the life of Bert Williams as “a way to approach this very private man's life” (“Caryl....

          Caryl Phillips was born in St.Kitts and came to Britain at the age of four months.

          He grew up in Leeds, and studied English Literature at Oxford University.

          He began writing for the theatre and his plays include Strange Fruit (1980), Where There is Darkness (1982) and The Shelter (1983).

          Caryl Phillips is best-known as a novelist and has so far published eleven novels for which he received major awards.

        1. Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts and came to Britain at the age of four months.
        2. In an interview with Diane Rehm, Phillips evoked his fictionalization of the life of Bert Williams as “a way to approach this very private man's life” (“Caryl.
        3. A re-imagining of the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest.
        4. Anglo-Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips is the author of 11 novels and numerous essays and dramatic pieces.

          5. He won the BBC Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play of the year with The Wasted Years (1984). He has written many dramas and documentaries for radio and television, including, in 1996, the three-hour film of his own novel The Final Passage.

          He wrote the screenplay for the film Playing Away (1986) and his screenplay for the Merchant Ivory adaptation of V.S.Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur (2001) won the Silver Ombu for best screenplay at the Mar Del Plata film festival in Argentina.

          His novels are: The Final Passage (1985), A State of Independence (1986), Higher Ground (1989), Cambridge (1991), Crossing the River (1993), The Nature of Blood (1997), A Distant Shore (2003)