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Article: Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. (St. Lucia).(Review)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Bruce King Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life Oxford, England. Oxford University Press 2000. xvi + 714 pages. 30 [pounds sterling]/$39.95 ISBN 0-19-871131-X
BRUCE KING, a literary critic whose diverse publications include books on Dryden and Naipaul, has written an exhaustively researched biography of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. While King touches on some private areas of his subject's life, he attends primarily to the varied, complex, busy aspects of Walcott's professional life as poet, playwright, director, cultural critic, teacher, and painter. The personal details that King finds germane to Walcott's career include his status as a mulatto member of an ...