Caryl Phillips began his writing life as a playwright. His early plays include Strange Fruit, Where There is Darkness and The Shelter. He wrote the screenplay for the film Playing Away and for the Merchant Ivory adaptation of V.S.Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur. His novels include: The Final Passage, The Nature of Blood, Dancing in the Dark, and Foreigners. His non-fiction: The European Tribe and The Atlantic Sound.
His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prizeand Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for Crossing the River. He is presently Professor of English at Yale University.
