In putting together this list of West Indian literature, I have simply compiled information from the following sources:

Online

This project started with a copy of A List of Caribbean Writers (a site that's no longer on the Web).  Then listings from the Bibliography of Creative Writing in Trinidad were inserted, as was information from the following booksellers and commercial web sites:

West Indies Books - Used and Rare Books (I am the owner of West Indies Books.)

Caribbean Imprint Library Services - New Books

Reference Books

Birbalsingh, Frank. Frontiers of Caribbean Literature in English. New York: St. Martin's Press [1996].

Cumber Dance, Daryl. New World Adams: Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1992.

Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth and Olga Torres-Seda. Caribbean Women Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut / London: Greenwood Press [1993].

Ramchand, Kenneth. The West Indian Novel and its Background. London: Faber and Faber [1971].

Individuals

Tom Burford

John Stryker

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Publishers

Hansib Publications

Heinemann

House of Nehesi Publishers

Peepal Tree Press

Ian Randle Publishers

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