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John Hearne

Died in 1994

John Hearne was born on 4 February 1926 in Montreal, to Jamaican parents. A pupil at Jamaica College, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, then studied at the University of Edinburgh and trained as a teacher in London. A teacher in England and Jamaica and a newspaper columnist, he was one of those in charge of the Creative Arts Centre of the University of the West Indies. He also wrote novels with Morris Cargill, under the name John Morris. He died on 12 December 1994.

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