George Lamming

George Lamming OCC (8 June 1927 – 4 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He was best known for his 1953 novel "In the Castle of My Skin". He also was a professor at Duke University and a visiting professor in the Africana Studies Department of Brown University. 
Lamming died in Barbados on 4 June 2022, four days before his 95th birthday.