Frank Hercules

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.

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

1 2 "Frank Hercules, 85, Novelist and Teacher," New York Times, 13 May 1996, accessed 31 October 2024.
↑ Frank Hercules, African American Literature Book Club, accessed 31 October 2024.

Henry, Keith S. (June 1983). "A Great and Neglected West Indian-American Writer: Frank Hercules". Caribbean Quarterly. 29 (2): 1–10. doi:10.1080/00086495.1983.11672027.
Knight, Franklin W.; Gates, Henry Louis (2016). Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American biography. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199935796.

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[nytobit-1] 1 2 "Frank Hercules, 85, Novelist and Teacher," New York Times, 13 May 1996, accessed 31 October 2024.

[2] Frank Hercules, African American Literature Book Club, accessed 31 October 2024.

Frank Hercules

Books

Novels

Nonfiction

References

Further reading