Charles E. Cooper

Charles Edward Cooper was born in 1894 in Liberia, in the society of the Americo-Liberians, descendants of freed slaves from the United States who governed the country. Educated at the College of Monrovia, he was a man of letters and a civil servant, at a time when the country's literate men wrote on Victorian models and printing was limited to a few presses in the capital. He signed his book with the pen name Varfelli Karlee, a form that has endured: library catalogues still list him under it as the author. He is among the very first Liberian writers.

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• NovelLove in EbonyCharles E. Cooper · 1932Literature