Caryl Phillips, who is also the author of A Distant Shore and several other works of fiction and non-fiction, is a professor of English at Yale University. Image: Mariana Cook/Farrar, Straus and ...

Caryl Phillips’s 11th novel nods to Emily Brontë, ... We are here to talk about his 11th novel, The Lost Child, a richly allusive, elliptical book which, like its author, ...

Caryl Phillips, a vital figure in trans-Atlantic literature whose critically acclaimed work has explored the African diaspora in the Caribbean, England and the United States, is scheduled to ...

Growing up, writer Caryl Phillips sometimes felt like an outsider. "I think that's very commonplace in British life," he tells NPR's Scott Simon. "I certainly, as the child of migrants to Britain ...

BooksCaryl PhillipsThe Lost Child is his tenth novel and response to Wuthering Heights.  Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 F ...

Caryl Phillips is a prolific British author of plays, novels and non-fiction. He discusses his life, education and work with the BBC’s Razia Iqbal.

Caryl Phillips. The author of “The Lost Child” will appear at 7 p.m. Monday, March 23, at Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle; free (206-624-6600 or elliottbaybook.com).

Growing up, writer Caryl Phillips sometimes felt like an outsider. "I think that's very commonplace in British life," he tells NPR's Scott Simon. "I certainly, as the child of migrants to Britain ...

"A part of me was beneath the surface and I had to discover it if I wanted to write with any clarity about myself," says Phillips. His novel The Lost Child brings Wuthering Heights into modern times.