CYRIL   LIONEL   ROBERT   JAMES DATE OF BIRTH: January 4, 1901 PLACE OF BIRTH: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad EDUCATION: Queen's Royal College CAREER:                                 Upon graduating from high school, James became a teacher after turning down a scholarship to further his education in England. He left Trinidad in 1932 for England to become a novelist, and later became a cricket correspondent for the Manchester Guardian while developing a great interest in Marxism. He moved to the USA in November 1938, but was expelled in 1953 for his un-American activities. James wrote the following books: 1936 - Minty Alley 1938 - The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution 1963 - Beyond a Boundary 1985 - Mariners, Renegades and Castaways 1986 - Cricket AWARD: 1987 - Trinidad & Tobago Trinity Cross (for Literature) DIED: May 1989, in Brixton, England Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit