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BRITISH CARIBBEAN AUTHOR, TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS NEW NOVEL, THE LOST CHILD NYS Writers Institute, March 10, 2015
CALENDAR LISTING: PROFILE His new novel, The Lost Child (2015), intertwines the life of Heathcliff, the dark-skinned orphan of Emily Brontë’s classic Victorian novel, Wuthering Heights, with the modern tale of a young woman struggling to raise her interracial sons in the wild moors of northern England after she is cast out by her family for marrying a Caribbean man.
Phillips’s nine previous novels include In the Falling Snow (2009), Dancing in the Dark (2005), and two winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize: A Distant Shore (2003), and Crossing the River (1993). He is also the author of several works of nonfiction, including a 2011 essay collection about race and English identity, Colour Me English. The reviewer for the London Independent called it, “a polymorphous delight that always retains at its core the notion of identity: how it is constructed, how it is thrust upon us, how we can change it. It is about our sense of self, how we fit within society—and how both society and individuals must adapt to each other in order for both to thrive.” Author of assorted theatre plays and radio plays, Phillips also wrote the screenplay of the 2001 Merchant Ivory film, The Mystic Masseur, based on the novel by V. S. Naipaul. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award, Phillips is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Currently Professor of English at Yale University, he has taught at universities in Ghana, Sweden, Singapore, Barbados, India, and the United States, and is an Honorary Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford. He writes regularly for The Guardian and The New Republic. Previous Visit: September 28, 2005 For additional information, contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst. |