CLR James


 
 

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901–19 May 1989) was a journalist, and a prominent socialist theorist and writer.

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Born in Trinidad, he attended the Queen's Royal College on the island before becoming a cricket journalist and also writing fiction. In 1932, he moved to Nelson in Lancashire, England in the hope of furthering his literary career. There, he worked for the Manchester Guardian and helped the cricketer Learie Constantine write his autobiography.


 

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Introduction
Birth and early career
London years
US career and the Johnson-Forrest Tendency
Return to Trinidad and final years
Bibliography
External links
Further reading
 


 

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