See also: ‘i-shake-hands-with-you-in-my-heartĪs with all content (words, images, other) on, except otherwise noted, this is written by Joanne C. His latest collection, via Peepal Tree Press, is New and Collected Poems. McDonald though best known for The Hummingbird Tree has kept writing from his home in Guyana. Both Baynes and McDonald are listed for their writings in the bibliography of Antiguan and Barbudan Writings. He is also the grandson of Hilda McDonald, the first female member of the Antiguan House of Assembly. The Trinidad born Guyanese based writer is a descendent of Edward Dacres Baynes, his five times great grandfather who was a colonial civil servant in the Leewards in the 1800s, eventually settling in Antigua, where he and his wife raised their 15 children. His only novel, The Humming-Bird Tree, first published in 1969, is considered a classic of Caribbean literature.Did you know that Ian McDonald, author of Caribbean classic The Hummingbird Tree (1969), has Antiguan roots.

Ian McDonald (born 18 April 1933) is a Caribbean-born poet and writer who describes himself as 'Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption, and West Indian by conviction.' His ancestry on his father's side is Antiguan and Kittitian, and Trinidadian on his mother’s side.

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