Frank Hercules
{{Short description|Caribbean-American writer (1917–1996)}}
Frank Hercules (12 February 1917 – 6 May 1996) was a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work dealt with issues of racial and colonial oppression."[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/13/arts/frank-hercules-85-novelist-and-teacher.html Frank Hercules, 85, Novelist and Teacher]," New York Times, 13 May 1996, accessed 31 October 2024.[https://aalbc.com/authors/Frank+Hercules Frank Hercules], African American Literature Book Club, accessed 31 October 2024.
Hercules studied law in London before moving to Harlem; his family had immigrated into the United States where his father found asylum as an anti-colonial revolutionary.
Books
=Novels=
- Where the Hummingbird Flies (1961)
- I Want a Black Doll (1967)
- On Leaving Paradise (1980)
- Sunrise at Midnight (posthumous)
- The Portuguese Earrings (unfinished)
=Nonfiction=
- American Society and the Black Revolution (1972)
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=Henry |first1=Keith S. |title=A Great and Neglected West Indian-American Writer: Frank Hercules |journal=Caribbean Quarterly |date=June 1983 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=1–10 |doi=10.1080/00086495.1983.11672027|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00086495.1983.11672027|url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite book |last1=Knight |first1=Franklin W. |last2=Gates |first2=Henry Louis |title=Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American biography |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780199935796}}
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