Michael Anthony

Michael Anthony HBM (10 February 1930 – 24 August 2023) was a Trinidadian author and historian, who was named by CNC3 as one of the "50 most influential people in Trinidad and Tobago". Early life and education Born in the county of Mayaro, Trinidad, on 10 February 1930, to Nathaniel Anthony and Eva Jones Lazarus, Michael Anthony was educated on the island at Mayaro Roman Catholic School and Junior Technical College in San Fernando. He subsequently took a job as a laundry worker in Pointe-à-Pierre for five years but had ambitions to become a journalist. Later on, poems of his were published by the Trinidad Guardian in 1954. Yet it was not enough for him to secure a new job locally and Anthony decided to further his career in the United Kingdom. Career outside Trinidad Anthony's voyage to the UK on board the Hildebrandt took place in December 1954. In England he held several jobs, including as a sub-editor at Reuters news agency (1964–1968), while developing his career as a writer, writing short stories for the BBC radio programme Caribbean Voices. In 1958 he married Yvette Phillips and they had four children — Jennifer, Keith, Carlos and Sandra.