Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Carlton Lindsay Barrett (born September 15, 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist and photographer who lives in Nigeria. Born in Lucea, Jamaica, in 1941, Lindsay Barrett graduated from high school in 1959. He then worked as an apprentice journalist at the Daily Gleaner newspaper and for its sister afternoon tabloid, the Star. In early 1961, he became a news editor for the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, where his mentor was the Jamaican journalist and political analyst John Maxwell.