AKA Erna May Brodber

Born: 20-Apr-1940
Birthplace: Woodside, St. Mary, Jamaica

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Occupation: Novelist, Sociologist

Nationality: Jamaica
Executive summary: Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home

    University: BA History, University College of the West Indies, London (1963)
    University: University of Washington (attended 1967)
    University: MSc Sociology, University College of the West Indies, Kingston (1968)
    University: University of Sussex (attended 1979 on a Commonwealth Fellowship)
    University: PhD History, University College of the West Indies, Kingston (1985)
    Teacher: University College of the West Indies, Kingston (7 years)
    Professor: Associate Professor, Randolph-Macon College

    Ford Fellowship 1967
    Fulbright 1990

Author of books:
Abandonment of Children in Jamaica (1974, nonfiction)
Yards in the City of Kingston (1975, nonfiction)
Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980, novel)
Perceptions of Caribbean Women: Towards a Documentation of Stereotypes (1982, nonfiction)
Rural-Urban Migration and the Jamaican Child (1986, nonfiction)
Myal (1988, novel)
Louisiana (1994, novel)

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