George William Lamming was born on 8 June 1927 in Carrington Village, Barbados, of mixed African and English parentage.
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He entered academia in 1967 as a writer-in-residence and lecturer in the Creative Arts Centre and Department of Education at the University of the West Indies, Kingston (1967–68).
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He also taught for 50 years at Combermere School, where he sought out and encouraged prospective writers in his classes, notably George Lamming.