Abstract
This essay examines the way George Lamming combines his commitment to the creative writing process, to his ethical devotion to social justice for the people ‘from down below.’ It maps the relationships that he has forged with the writers of his generation, while cultivating crucial intellectual and political networks with the leading Caribbean academics, politicians, and political activists. These social networks place George Lamming at the center of Caribbean literary, intellectual, and cultural history. In short, the paper reveals the organic link between the aesthetic and the political in the creative imagination of one of the Caribbean leading novelists and public intellectuals.