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."Frank Hercules, 85, Novelist and Teacher," New York Times, 13 May 1996, accessed 31 October 2024.Frank Hercules, African American Literature Book Club, accessed 31 October 2024.
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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