Lamming

Lamming is the author of six novels: In the Castle of My Skin (1953), The Emigrants (1954), Of Age and Innocence (1958), Season of Adventure (1960), Water with Berries (1971) and Natives of My Person(1972). His much acclaimed first novel, In the Castle of My Skin, featuring an autobiographical character named G., can be read as both a coming-of-age story as well as the story of the Caribbean.[13]

His 1960 collection of essays, The Pleasures of Exile, is a pioneering work that attempts to define the place of the West Indian in the post-colonial world, re-interpreting Shakespeare's The Tempestand the characters of Prospero and Caliban in terms of personal identity and the history of the Caribbean.[14]

A more recent (1995) collection of essays is Coming, Coming Home: Conversations II – Western Education and the Caribbean Intellectual.[15]