Frank Hercules
Caribbean-American writer
About Frank Hercules
Lived 1917 – 1996 (aged 78–79).
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)
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Who was Frank Hercules?
caribbean-American writer (1917–1996)
When was Frank Hercules born?
Frank Hercules was born in 1917.
When did Frank Hercules die?
Frank Hercules died in 1996.
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