Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, grew up in England, and now lives in New York City.
He is the author of eight novels, including A Distant Shore and Dancing in the Dark. He has published three books of nonfiction, most recently A New World Order: Selected Essays.
He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations, won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, Britain's oldest literary prize—the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of English at Yale University.
His new book, Foreigners: Three English Lives, will be published in the fall of 2007.
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