Caryl Phillips is a writer – primarily a novelist, essayist, and playwright. He is also a Professor of English at Yale University. He has won many awards for his work, including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He has taught at universities in Ghana, Sweden, Barbados, Britain and the United States. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He attended the College between 1976 and 1979 and was one of the first students to graduate from Queen’s with a degree in English Literature.