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CYRIL LIONEL ROBERT JAMES
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DATE OF BIRTH: |
January 4, 1901 |
PLACE OF BIRTH: |
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad |
EDUCATION: |
Queen's Royal College |
CAREER: Upon graduating from high school, James became a teacher after turning down a scholarship to further his education in England. He left Trinidad in 1932 for England to become a novelist, and later became a cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian while developing a great interest in Marxism. He moved to the USA in November 1938, but was expelled in 1953 for his un-American activities. James wrote the following books:
- 1936 - Minty Alley
- 1938 - The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
- 1963 - Beyond a Boundary
- 1985 - Mariners, Renegades and Castaways
- 1986 - Cricket
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AWARD:
- 1987 - Trinidad & Tobago Trinity Cross (for Literature)
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DIED: |
May 1989, in Brixton, England |
Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit |
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