Die the Long Day: Caribbean Modern Classics

is a British publisher, editor and writer. He is the founder of Peepal Tree Press, one of the world's leading publishers of Caribbean and Black British writing. Over more than four decades, he has championed emerging and established writers from across the Caribbean diaspora. He is also the author of critical essays and memoir, and has been widely recognised for his contribution to Caribbean literature and publishing. Orlando Patterson is a Jamaican-born sociologist, novelist and public intellectual. He is the John Cowles Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Harvard University and the author of numerous influential works on slavery, freedom and Caribbean society. His fiction includes The Children of Sisyphus, An Absence of Ruins and Die the Long Day. Patterson's scholarship and creative writing have earned international recognition for their insight into the legacies of colonialism, race and social change.