![]() ![]() By 1967, she had earned her bachelor's degree in English from Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She then came to the United States at the age of 19. ![]() As a young girl she won a scholarship to a prestigious academy established by colonial authorities. Nunez was born in Trinidad in the mid-1940s and grew up during the final years of the island's struggle for independence from Britain. Elizabeth Schmidt, writing in the New York Times Book Review, called it a "gripping and richly imagined" work, while Black Issues Book Review critic Marjorie Valbrun praised it as "a rich story that moves back and forth easily between the past and the present, between reality and fantasy, and between falsely perceived truth and the truth that ultimately sets the characters free." Her 2006 novel Prospero's Daughter was hailed by critics as a trenchant fictional exploration of the clashes between British and blacks in Trinidad, her native land. The novels of Elizabeth Nunez examine the cultural unease that West Indian blacks like herself have experienced both at home in the Caribbean and as immigrants to an America deeply divided by racism. ![]()
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