Phillips, Caryl

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction including "Dancing in the Dark", "Crossing the River", and "Color Me English". His novel "A Distant Shore "won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and his other awards include a Lannan Foundation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in New York.