Her work has been compared to that of William Faulkner, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid. Mark Lamming is a moderately successful biographer. In 1995 he published the textbook "Interactive System Design" with Mik Lamming incorporating those ideas. Throughout the 1950s, Lamming Bros. had logging and milling operations in the area. In 1951 Lamming became a broadcaster for the BBC Colonial Service. Lamming himself read poems on "Caribbean Voices", including some by the young Derek Walcott. Lamming attended Roebuck Boys' School and Combermere School on a scholarship. Lamming was subsequently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and became a professional writer.