Opal Palmer Adisa: Award-winning poet, educator and storyteller; born in Kingston, Jamaica; Biography, Website

Ruth Behar: Author, filmmaker; born 1961 in Havana, Cuba, raised in New York. Biography, Website: Books

Edward "Kamau" Brathwaite: Poet, playwright, critic, and historian; born 1930 in Bridgetown, Barbados; Interview with Kamau Brathwaite, Biography, Biography

Erna Brodber: Writer, scholar, and activist; born April 20, 1940 in Woodside, St. Mary, Jamaica; Brief Biography, An interview with Erna Brodber.

Roslyn Carrington: Novelist and columnist; born in Trinidad; Website, Bio.

Aime Cesaire: Poet and playwriter; born 1912 on Martinique. Brief overview and bibliography, Books

Merle Collins: Poet, actor, novelist; born September 29th,1950 in Aruba; raised in Grenada; Biography

Maryse Condé (Philcox); born 1937 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe; Biography

Rosario Ferre: Contemporary Puerto Rican Essayist, Novelist, Poet and Literary Critic; born 1938 in Ponce, Puerto Rico; Biography, Books

Nicolas Guillen: Poet, born in Camageuey, Cuba, 1904 - 1989; overview, biography, books. Poems: Can You? - Atomic Bomb - Tell Me - Bars. An E-report on"Can You" "Ballad of the Two Grandfathers".

Rosa Cuthbert Guy; Novelist, Playwriter, and activist, born September 1st 1929 in Trinidad raised in the US; Biography, Interview

Wilson Harris: Novelist, poet and non fiction writer; born March 24, 1921, in New Amsterdam, British Guiana (now Guyana); Brief Biography, Bibliography

Hubert Harrison: Writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist; (1883-1927): born in St. Croix of the Virgin Islands, Brief Biography.

Merle Hodge; Novelist, Journalist; born 1944 in Curepe, Trinidad; Biography

C. L. R. James: Cultural historian, cricket writer, and political activist; (1901-1989) born in Port of Spain, Trinidad; Biography and Bibliography. The CLR James Institute

Jamaica Kincaid: Christened Elaine Potter Richardson; born May 25, 1949 in Antigua; Biography and Bibliography, Mother Jones.com interview , Books

George Lamming; Political author, novelist; born June 8, 1927 in Barbados; Biography and Bibliography, Interview

Earl Lovelace; Jounalist, playwright, novelist, and a short-story writer; born 1935 in Toco, Trinidad; Biography, Works.

V.S. Naipaul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul): A leading novelist of the English-speaking Caribbean, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 2001; born 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad; Biography, Bibliography, Interview, Review: Beyond Belief, Books

Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell, Novelist and editor; born in Cocorite, Trinidad and Tobago, Biography. Books

Lakshmi Persaud: born 1939 in Tunapuna, Trinidad; Biography, Works, Website, Books

Caryl Phillips; Novelist, essayist, play and script writer; born March 13, 1958, in St. Kitts, raised in England; Website, Biography

Leone Ross, born June 26, 1969 in Coventry, England, raised on Jamaica; Website, Brief Biography, Books

Derik Walcott: Poet and dramatist; born 1930 on St. Lucia; 1992 Nobel Literature Laureate; Bibliography and Biography, Article by Jöran Mjöberg, Books

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