He failed to win election as a Progressive Conservative candidate for the Ontario legislature in 1977.Ĭlarke didn’t become a Canadian citizen until 1981.
In 1975, he returned to his homeland to become general manager of the Caribbean Broadcasting Corp., returning to Canada in 1976. He kept writing throughout, publishing “Storm of Fortune” in 1973 and “The Bigger Light” in 1975. He also worked as a cultural attache to the Barbadian Embassy in Washington. universities, and was among the professors who founded Yale University’s Black Studies program. His first two novels were set in the West Indies: “The Survivors of Crossing” (1964) and “The Meeting Point” (1967).ĭuring the late 1960s and early ’70s, Clarke became a visiting lecturer at a number of major U.S. He soon turned to journalism and subsequently to fiction. James, Barbados, and moved to Canada in 1955 to attend the University of Toronto. “Certainly, there is no other black Canadian author who has been so heartily embraced as Austin Clarke,” wrote literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse in a 2003 profile published by the trade magazine Quill & Quire.Īustin Chesterfield Clarke was born in St.
The book describes his moving to Canada in 1955 to study at the University of Toronto, his struggles with racial discrimination and his early days as a journalist covering the civil rights movement in New York’s Harlem in the 1960s. His memoir and final work, titled “Membering,” was published last year.
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