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Rachel Manley (born 1955) [1] is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England, [2] raised in Jamaica and currently (as of August 2020) residing in Canada. [3] She is a daughter of the former Jamaican prime minister, Michael Manley .
Andrew Salkey (30 January 1928 – 28 April 1995) was a Jamaican novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Panamanian origin.. He was born in Panama but was raised in Jamaica, moving to Britain in the 1952 to pursue a job in the literary world, combining a job in a South London comprehensive school teaching English with a job working on the door of a West End night ...
Jones remains the most accomplished Jamaican international screenwriter to date. His poetry, especially 'The Song of the Banana Man', is widely anthologised and his output as a playwright for theatre and television spans four decades. He is also the writer of two novels, a biography and collections of Jamaican folk stories.
Francis Williams (c. 1690 – c. 1770) was a Jamaican polymath, scholar, astronomer and poet who was one of the most notable free black people in Jamaica. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, into a slaveholding family, Williams subsequently travelled to England where he officially became a British subject.
Candice Carty-Williams (born 1989), writer and author. She was the first black woman to win the British Book Awards "Book of the Year" accolade for her novel Queenie; Lady Colin Campbell (born 1949), author and socialite; Patricia Cumper (born 1954), playwright, producer, director, theatre administrator, critic and commentator
William Beckford's Roaring River Estate near Savanna-la-Mar, engraving (1778) after George Robertson. William Beckford of Somerley, Suffolk was the son of Richard Beckford (c. 1711–1756) and his friend Elizabeth Hay ("whom I have esteemed and do esteem in all respects as my wife" [2]), and was born in Jamaica in 1744 into an influential slave-holding family of colonial Jamaica. [3]
Mendez was born in Dudley, [5] West Midlands to a second generation Jamaican-British family and raised as a Jehovah's Witness. [1] Disfellowshipped for their sexuality, [5] Mendez left their parents' house at age seventeen and began their studies in engineering at the University of Greenwich.
Anthony C. Winkler (25 February 1942 – 18 September 2015) [1] [2] was a successful Jamaican novelist and popular contributor to many post-secondary English literary texts. . His first novel The Painted Canoe (1986), although taking the most time to write and publish, was his most rewarding, allowing him to move on and produce his best known book, The Lunatic (1987), which earned him a spot ...