About the Author

Michael Anthony was born in the little southeastern village of Mayaro, Trinidad. Most of his fiction reflects that village and its people. To date he has written 26 books, both fiction and non-fiction. Anthony received a British Arts Council award in 1969, and in 1979 he was awarded the Humming-Bird Medal (Gold) of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2003 the University of the West Indies conferred upon him an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters.