He was elected President of the Cambridge University West Indian Society. He attended Clare College, Cambridge University (1951–55), where he obtained a BA Honours Degree in History and later received his MA. He received his secondary education at Queen's Royal College (1942–51) in Port of Spain, where he obtained distinctions in History and English in the Higher School Certificate. He has four sisters – Heather Murray, Gillian Howie, Robin McDonald and Monica Purkis – and one brother, Archie McDonald. His uncle was Air Marshall Sir Arthur McDonald of Royal Air Force. Kitts and whose parents were born in Antigua), was Agricultural Director of Gordon Grant Limited. Ian McDonald was born on 18 April 1933, in St Augustine, Trinidad, where his mother, Thelma McDonald ( née Seheult), and her parents were born and where his father, John Archie McDonald (who was born in St. His only novel, The Humming-Bird Tree, first published in 1969, is considered a classic of Caribbean literature. Ian McDonald (born 18 April 1933) is a Caribbean-born poet and writer who describes himself as " Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption, and West Indian by conviction." His ancestry on his father's side is Antiguan and Kittitian, and Trinidadian on his mother’s side.
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