Lovelace, Earl

Lovelace, Earl

▪ West Indian author
born July 13, 1935, Toco, Trinidad

      West Indian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright celebrated for his descriptive, dramatic fiction about West Indian culture. Using Trinidadian speech patterns and standard English, he probes the paradoxes often inherent in social change as well as the clash between rural and urban cultures.

      Lovelace was raised by his maternal grandparents on the island of Tobago. He attended private schools there and in Port of Spain, Trinidad. After living abroad for a short time, he returned to Trinidad in 1967 and worked as a journalist, novelist, and dramatist. He also taught English at the University of the West Indies at Saint Augustine and was a writer in residence at several universities in the United States, including Johns Hopkins University, where he earned an M.A. degree in 1974.

      His acclaimed first novel, While Gods Are Falling (1965), features a protagonist who feels that only by returning to his remote village can he truly be himself. The Schoolmaster (1968) is a tragic novel about the building of a school in rural Trinidad. The Dragon Can't Dance (1979), which Lovelace adapted into a play (produced 1990), concerns the efforts of a group of people to regain their culture and sense of community in poverty-ridden Trinidad. His later novels include The Wine of Astonishment (1982) and Salt (1996). Lovelace also published the short-story collection A Brief Conversion and Other Stories (1988), as well as the plays The New Hardware Store and My Name Is Village, both collected in Jestina's Calypso & Other Plays (1984).

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