Lannan Readings & Conversations

Caryl Phillips

with Glyn Maxwell
Wednesday November 1 2006


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Downloadable Podcast of this event is available

Caryl Phillips (right) in conversation with Glyn Maxwell at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Wednesday, November 1, 2006. Photo: Don Usner

Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, England, and now lives in New York City. He is the author of three works of non-fiction and eight novels, as well as the editor of two anthologies. His latest novel, Dancing In The Dark, re-imagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874-1922), the first black entertainer in the United States to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship.

Caryl Phillips Bio and Cross Links


Glyn Maxwell was born in England in 1962 and took a degree in English at Oxford University. He then received a scholarship to Boston University where he studied poetry and theater with Derek Walcott. He has been the poetry editor at the New Republic since 2001 and his more recent books include The Sugar Mile, The Breakage, Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse, and The Nerve. Maxwell is also a playwright, novelist, and an opera librettist.

Glyn Maxwell Bio and Cross Links