Jean Rhys AKA Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams Born: 24-Aug-1890 Birthplace: Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies Died: 14-May-1979 Location of death: Exeter, Devon, England Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: West Indies Executive summary: Wide Sargasso Sea Father: (physician, Welsh) Mother: (Creole) Husband: Jean Lenglet (journalist, m. 1919, one son, one daughter) Son: (d. infancy) Husband: Leslie Tilden Smith (m. 1934, d. 1945) Husband: Max Hamer (m. 1947, d. 1966)
High School: Perse School, Cambridge (1907-08) University: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1909)
Commander of the British Empire 1978 Risk Factors: Alcoholism
Author of books:
The Left Bank (1927, short stories) Postures (1928, novel, aka Quartet) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931, novel) Voyage in the Dark (1934, novel) Good Morning, Midnight (1939, novel) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966, novel) Tigers Are Better-Looking, with a Selection from the Left Bank (1968, short stories) Sleep It Off Lady (1976, short stories) Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (1979, memoir, posthumous) Jean Rhys Letters 1931-1966 (1984, letters, posthumous)
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