Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

182 returned to Trinidad to help in the nationalist movement. He edited the PNM newspaper, the Nation, and was a champion of the Pan-African movement. After a dispute with Eric Williams, he left Trinidad in 1961. Back in Britain, in 1963 he published Beyond a Boundary , a classic, about cricket but also an autobiography and a description of Trinidadian society. There is a collection of his material at the West Indiana and Special Collections Division at UWI. • 1987 Trinity Cross. EDWARD JOSEPH H is writings about things Trinidad (geography, flora and fauna, and history) were documented in the 1830’s and later published as History of Trinidad in 1838. It was the first attempt to record our history. EARL LOVELACE (1935- ) T oco-born internationally acclaimed author, for decades he has been a major figure in Caribbean literature and has risen to the height of his literary glory by copping some of the prestigious awards in his field. He attended Scarborough Methodist Primary School, Nelson Street Boys, R.C., Port of Spain, and Ideal High School, Port of Spain. In the 1950’s and 1960’s he worked at the Trinidad Guardian as a proofreader for the Department of Forestry and the Ministry of Agriculture. He then studied at Howard . University, Washington, DC, from 1966 to 1967, and in 1974 he received an MA in English from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. From 1977 to 1987 he lectured in literature and creative writing at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine. He was appointed Writer-in-Residence in England by the London Arts Board (1995-6), a visiting lecturer in the Africana Studies Department at Wellesley College, Massachusetts (1996-7), and was Distinguished Novelist in the Department of English at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington (1999-2004). His first novel, While Gods Are Falling, was published in 1965 and won the British Petroleum Independence Literary Award. It was