Frank Hercules
Caribbean-American writer (1917–1996)
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Frank Hercules (12 February 1917 – 6 May 1996) was a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work dealt with issues of racial and colonial oppression.[1][2]
Hercules studied law in London before moving to Harlem; his family had immigrated into the United States where his father found asylum as an anti-colonial revolutionary.[1]
Books
Novels
- Where the Hummingbird Flies (1961)
- I Want a Black Doll (1967)
- On Leaving Paradise (1980)
- Sunrise at Midnight (posthumous)
- The Portuguese Earrings (unfinished)
Nonfiction
- American Society and the Black Revolution (1972)
