Alvin Bennett
Alvin Gladstone Bennett (1918–2004), also known as A. Bennett, was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, and poet. Alvin Bennett was born in Falmouth, Trelawny Parish, he left his job as a purser in 1954 to become a journalist for The Gleaner. His newspaper columns were often witty and offered "acerbic comments on the affairs of God and humanity".
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Alvin Bennett
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- 1918
- Died
- 2004
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- novelist · poet
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Alvin Gladstone Bennett (1918–2004), also known as A. Bennett, was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, and poet. Alvin Bennett was born in Falmouth, Trelawny Parish, he left his job as a purser in 1954 to become a journalist for The Gleaner. His newspaper columns were often witty and offered "acerbic comments on the affairs of God and humanity".
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Born in 1918, died in 2004.
Alvin Bennett (1918–2004) was a novelist and poet.
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- 1.Bennett, Ian Bethell. Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press. 2016. 9780199935802.
- 2.Case, F. I. Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Taylor & Francis. 113. 2004. 9781134468485.
- 3.Wills, Clair. Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain. Penguin Books. 364. 2017. 9780141974965.
- 4.Mackay, Mercedes. Because They Know Not by A. G. Bennett. African Affairs. Oxford University Press. 58. 232. 261. 1959. 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a094663.
- 5.Altink, Henrice. Public Secrets: Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica. Liverpool University Press. 62. 2019. 9781789620009.
- 6.Dalleo, Raphael. The Public Sphere and Jamaican Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion, Focus, and the Place of the Literary. Small Axe Project. 14. 2. 80. 2010.
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