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Anthony Winkler |
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Anthony C. Winkler was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on February 25, 1942. He attended Excelsior College in Kingston and then Mt. Alvernia Academy and Cornwall College, both in Montego Bay. In 1962 he went to California, where he received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English. He returned to Jamaica in 1975; there, he got married. He became a full-time freelance writer in 1976 after moving back to the United States. His first novel, The Painted Canoe was published in 1984 by Kingston publishers (now LMH). This was followed by The Lunatic (1987), The Great Yacht Race (1992), Going to Home to Teach (1995) and The Duppy (1997). In 1991 he wrote the screenplay for the film version of The Lunatic, and in 1999 his original screenplay, The Annihilation of Fish, soon to be released, was filmed in L.A. starring James Earl Jones, Lynn Redgrave, and Margot Kidder. He lives in Atlanta.
Program: Life Sentence
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