Anne Walmsley

Anne Walmsley (September 1931 – 12 July 2025) was a British-born editor, scholar, critic and author, notable as a specialist in Caribbean art and literature over a period of five decades. She was widely recognised for her work as Longman's Caribbean publisher, and for Caribbean books that she authored and edited. Her anthology for schools, The Sun's Eye: West Indian Writing for Young Readers (1968), drew on her use of local literary material while teaching in Jamaica. A participant in and chronicler of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Walmsley was also the author of The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971 (1992) and Art in the Caribbean (2010). She lived in London.