The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

His 1960 collection of essays The Pleasure of Exile is a pioneering work that attempts to define the place of the West Indian in the post-colonial world re-interpreting Shakespeare's The Tempest and the characters of Prospero and Caliban in terms of personal identity and the history of the Caribbean. London: Allison & Busby 1980)
Of Age and Innocence (London: Michael Joseph 1958; London: Allison & Busby 1981)
Season of Adventure (London: Michael Joseph 1960; Allison & Busby 1979; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1999)
The Pleasures of Exile (London: Michael Joseph 1960; Allison & Busby 1981; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1992)
Water with Berries (London: Longman 1971; New York: Holt Rinehart 1972)
Natives of my Person (London: Longman; New York: Holt Rinehart 1972. "Birds of a Feather" in Stories from the Caribbean ed.

George Lamming (born 8 June 1927) is a novelist essayist and poet who is the most famous writer to emerge from Barbados and one of the Caribbean's most important novelists. " He is a visiting professor in the Africana Studies Department of Brown University.