Edgar Mittelholzer

Edgar Mittelholzer was born on 16 December 1909 in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, into a family of Swiss-German, French, British and African ancestry, in which his darker complexion earned him his father's disapproval. After years of odd jobs and rejections from publishers, he enlisted in 1941 in the Trinidad naval reserve, where he married, then made his way to London. A typist at the British Council, he became the first novelist of the English-speaking Caribbean to make a living from his pen in England and published more than twenty novels. He died in England in May 1965.

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• NovelA Morning at the OfficeEdgar Mittelholzer · 1950Literature