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born: 1/4/1901
died: 5/19/1989
born as: Cyril Lionel Robert James

Trinidad-born writer and socialist theorist. His work includes The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, a history of the Haitian revolution. His autobiographical Beyond a Boundary is recognized as one of the best books about cricket ever written.