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Born in January 23, 1930 / United States / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

  • Baugh, Edward, Derek Walcott: Memory As Vision: Another Life, Longman (London, England), 1978.
  • Bloom, Harold, Derek Walcott, Chelsea House (New York, NY), 1988.
  • Brown, Stewart, editor, The Art of Derek Walcott, Dufour (Chester Springs, PA), 1991.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 2, 1974, Volume 4, 1975, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 25, 1983, Volume 42, 1987, Volume 67, 1992, Volume 76, 1993.
  • Contemporary Poets, 6th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 117: Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Writers, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1981, 1982,, and 1992, 1993.
  • Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Culture, Volume 5: African-American Culture, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Goldstraw, Irma, Derek Walcott: An Annotated Bibliography of His Works, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1984.
  • Hamner, Robert D., compiler and editor, Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott, Three Continents Press (Washington, DC), 1993.
  • Hamner, Robert D., Derek Walcott, Twayne (Boston, MA), 1981.
  • Hamner, Robert D., Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's "Omeros," University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO), 1997.
  • Harper, Michael S., and Robert B. Stepto, editors, Chant of Saints, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1979.
  • Herdeck, Donald E., editor, Three Dynamite Authors: Derek Walcott (Nobel 1992), Naguib Mahfouz (Nobel 1988), Wole Soyinka (Nobel 1986): Ten Bio-critical Essays from Their Works As Published by Three Continents Press, Three Continents Press (Colorado Springs, CO), 1995.
  • King, Bruce Alvin, Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama: Not Only a Playwright but a Company, the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, 1959-1993, Oxford University (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Olaniyan, Tejumola, Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Parker, Michael, and Roger Starkey, editors, Postcolonial Literatures: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai, Walcott, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Rodman, Selden, Tongues of Fallen Angels, New Directions (New York, NY), 1974.
  • Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Terada, Rei, Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA), 1992.
  • Thomas, Ned, Derek Walcott, Poet of the Islands, Welsh Arts Council (Cardiff, Wales), 1980.
  • Walcott, Derek, In a Green Night: Poems, 1948-1960, J. Cape (London, England), 1962.
  • Walcott, Derek, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1970.
  • Walcott, Derek, The Star-Apple Kingdom, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1979.
  • Walcott, Derek, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1986.
  • Wheatcroft, John, editor, Our Other Voices: Nine Poets Speaking, Bucknell University Press (Lewisberg, VA) , 1991.
  • Wieland, James, The Ensphering Mind: History, Myth, and Fictions in the Poetry of Allen Curnow, Nissim Ezekiel, A. D. Hope, A. M. Klein, Christopher Okigbo, and Derek Walcott, Three Continents Press (Washington, DC), 1988.

PERIODICALS

  • African American Review, winter, 1999, "Conversations with Derek Walcott," p. 708.
  • American Poetry Review, May-June, 1978.
  • American Theatre, May-June, 1993, Patti Hartigan, "The Passions of Derek Walcott," p. 14.
  • Architectural Digest, January, 1997.
  • Art Journal, spring, 2001, review of Tiepolo's Hound, p. 107.
  • Atlanta Journal and Constitution, April 23, 1995.
  • Black Issues Book Review, May, 2001, Gregory A. Pardlo, review of Tiepolo's Hound, p. 34.
  • Booklist, April 15, 1997; December 1, 2001, Jack Helbig, review of The Haitian Trilogy, p. 625; August, 2002, Jack Helbig, review of Walker and Ghost Dance, p. 1912.
  • Books and Bookmen, April, 1972.
  • Book World, December 13, 1970; January 3, 1999, review of What the Twilight Says, p. 13.
  • Boston Globe, January 20, 1996; October 16, 1996; October 12, 1997; November 16, 1997.
  • Callaloo, spring, 1999, review of Omeros, p. 509; winter, 2001, review of Omeros, p. 276.
  • Caribbean Writer, Volume 13, 1999, review of What the Twilight Says, p. 234.
  • Chicago Tribune Book World, May 2, 1982; September 9, 1984; March 9, 1986.
  • Choice, March, 1995.
  • Christian Science Monitor, March 19, 1982; April 6, 1984.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, April 19, 1996, p. A23.
  • Classical World, September, 1999, reviews of Omeros, p. 7, and The Odyssey: A Stage Version, p. 71.
  • Commonweal, April 10, 1998, review of Capeman.
  • Contemporary Literature, summer, 1979; winter, 1994, Graham Huggan, "A Tale of Two Parrots: Walcott, Rhys, and the Uses of Colonial Mimicry," p. 643.
  • Detroit Free Press, October 9, 1992.
  • Economist, September 6, 1997, review of The Bounty.
  • English Journal, March, 1994, p. 94.
  • Entertainment Weekly, February 13, 1998.
  • Georgia Review, summer, 1984.
  • Hudson Review, summer, 1984.
  • Interview, December, 1997, author interview.
  • Journal of Commonwealth Literature, December, 1976; August, 1981; August, 1986.
  • Library Journal, November 1, 1994, p. 127; June 1, 1996; April 15, 1997, review of The Bounty; October 15, 1998; May 15, 2000, Graham Christian, review of Tiepolo's Hound, p. 98; November 1, 2001, review of The Haitian Trilogy, p. 117; January, 2002, Thomas E. Luddy, review of The Haitian Trilogy, p. 105; July, 2002, Thomas E. Luddy, review of Walker and the Ghost Dance, p. 81.
  • Literary Review, spring, 1986.
  • London Magazine, December, 1973-January, 1974; February-March, 1977.
  • Los Angeles Times, November 12, 1986.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 4, 1982; May 21, 1985; April 6, 1986; October 26, 1986; September 6, 1987; January 20, 1991; October 20, 1996.
  • Nation, February 12, 1977; May 19, 1979; February 27, 1982.
  • National Review, November 3, 1970; June 20, 1986, James W. Tuttleton, review of Collected Poems: 1948-1984, p. 51.
  • New Criterion, March, 1998, Mark Steyn, review of Capeman, p. 38.
  • New Leader, March 11, 1991, Phoebde Pettingell, review of Omeros, p. 15; January 13, 1997, review of Homage to Robert Frost; September 8, 1997, review of The Bounty.
  • New Republic, November 20, 1976; March 17, 1982; January 23, 1984; March 24, 1986, J. D. McClatchy, review of Collected Poems, p. 36; October 29, 1990, Christopher Benfey, review of Omeros, p. 36; December 28, 1992; December 15, 1997, review of The Bounty; March 30, 1998, review of Capeman.
  • New Statesman, March 19, 1982; August 15, 1997, review of The Bounty.
  • New Statesman & Society, October, 16, 1992; July 21, 1995.
  • Newsweek, October 19, 1992.
  • New York, August 14, 1972; February 16, 1998.
  • New Yorker, March 27, 1971; June 26, 1971; December 12, 1992; February 9, 1998.
  • New York Review of Books, December 31, 1964; May 6, 1971; June 13, 1974; October 14, 1976; May 31, 1979; March 4, 1982; November 10, 1983; March 27, 1997.
  • New York Times, March 21, 1979; August 21, 1979; May 30, 1981; May 2, 1982; January 15, 1986; December 17, 1986; October 9, 1992; June 1, 1995; November 13, 1997.
  • New York Times Book Review, September 13, 1964; October 11, 1970; May 6, 1973; October 31, 1976; May 13, 1979; January 3, 1982; April 8, 1984; February 2, 1986; December 20, 1987; October 7, 1990; October 6, 1996; June 29, 1997.
  • New York Times Magazine, May 23, 1982; November 9, 1997.
  • Observer (London, England), October 11, 1992; February 14, 1999.
  • Paris Review, winter, 1986.
  • Poetry, February, 1972; December, 1973; July, 1977; December, 1984; June, 1986; August, 1998; August, 1999, review of What the Twilight Says, p. 286; April, 2001, Paul Breslin, review of Tiepolo's Hound, p. 38.
  • Progressive, June, 1998, review of Capeman.
  • Publishers Weekly, July 15, 1996, review of Homage to Robert Frost; May 26, 1997, review of The Bounty; August 31, 1998; February 7, 2000, review ofTiepolo's Hound, p. 69.
  • Research in African Literature, summer, 1994, Patrick Hogan, review of Dream on Monkey Mountain, p. 103; spring, 2003, Edward Baugh, "Derek Walcott and the Centering of the Caribbean Subject," p. 151.
  • Review, winter, 1974.
  • Sewanee Review, January, 1999, review of What the Twilight Says, p. R25.
  • South Carolina Review, fall, 1999, review of Omeros, p. 142.
  • Spectator (London, England), May 10, 1980.
  • Third World Quarterly, October, 1988.
  • Time, March 15, 1982; October 11, 1992; October 31, 1994, p. 78; July 14, 1997, Pico Iyer, review of The Bounty, p. 85; January 19, 1998; April 3, 2000, Paul Gray, "Islands in the Stream: Poet Derek Walcott Spins a Luminous Meditation on Visual Art," p. 81.
  • Times Literary Supplement, December 25, 1969; August 3, 1973; July 23, 1976; August 8, 1980; September 8, 1980; September 24, 1982; November 9, 1984; October 24, 1986; October 1, 1999, review of What the Twilight Says, p. 25.
  • Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), November 8, 1987.
  • TriQuarterly, winter, 1986.
  • Twentieth-Century Literature, summer, 2001, Charles W. Pollard, "Traveling with Joyce: Derek Walcott's Discrepant Cosmopolitan Modernism," p. 197; fall, 2001, Robert D. Hamner, review of The Odyssey: A Stage Version, p. 374.
  • Village Voice, April 11, 1974.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, winter, 1974; summer, 1984; summer, 1999, review of What the Twilight Says, p. 84.
  • Vogue, January, 1998.
  • Wall Street Journal, October 9, 1992.
  • Washington Post Book World, February 21, 1982; April 13, 1986; November 11, 1990; April 26, 1995.
  • Western Humanities Review, spring, 1977.
  • World Literature Today, spring, 1977; summer, 1979; summer, 1981; winter, 1985; summer, 1986; winter, 1987; winter, 1989; winter, 1997; winter, 1998, review of The Bounty, p. 191; spring, 1999, review of What the Twilight Says, p. 339; autumn, 2000, Jim Hannan, review of Tiepolo's Hound, p. 797.
  • World Literature Written in English, April, 1973; April, 1977; November, 1977; spring, 1986; spring, 1987.
  • Yale Review, October, 1973.
  • Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri, August 22, 2000, "Walcott Turns an Artistic Eye to Colonialism in Epic Poem," p. YOSH12474972.

ONLINE

  • Academy of American Poets Web site, http://www.poets.org/ (June 3, 2003), author biography.
  • Boston University Web site, http://www.bu.edu/ (June 3, 2003), Derek Walcott faculty profile.
  • Nobel e-Museum Web site, http://www.nobel.se/ (June 3, 2003), author biographical material and interview.
  • Richmond Review Online, http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/ (June 3, 2003), Amanda Jeremin Harris, review of Tiepolo's Hound.