Ian McDonald

IAN MCDONALD (1933–2026) was born in Trinidad. He studied history at Cambridge University, and was a gifted tennis player who captained the Cambridge, Guyana, and West Indies Davis Cup teams. He first traveled to Guyana in 1955 and was named director of the Guyana Sugar Industry and then CEO of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean. A longtime columnist for the Stabroek News, he published eleven books of poetry, the novel The Humming-Bird Tree (also a BBC film), and edited two major anthologies of Caribbean writing.