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- John Edgar Colwell Hearne (4 February 1926 – 12 December 1994) was a Jamaican novelist, journalist, and teacher.
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John Edgar Colwell Hearne (4 February 1926 – 12 December 1994) was a Jamaican novelist, journalist, and teacher. Biography. Hearne was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, of Jamaican parents and attended Jamaica College in Kingston. After serving in the RAF during the Second World War, he read English and Philosophy at Edinburgh University. [1] .
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Born John Edgar Caulwell Hearne on February 4, 1926, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; died December 12, 1995; married Joyce Veitch, September 3, 1947 (divorced); married Leeta Mary Hopkinson, April 12, 1955; two children. Education: Jamaica College; Edinburgh University, MA, 1950; University of London, teaching diploma, 1950. Military Service: Air gunn...
Novels
Voices Under the Window, Faber, 1955. Stranger at the Gate, Faber, 1956. The Faces of Love, Faber, 1957 (published in the United States as The Eye of the Storm, 1957). Autumn Equinox, Faber, 1959. Land of the Living, Faber, 1961. (With Morris Cargill under pseudonym John Morris), Fever GrassPutnam, 1969. (With Morris Cargill under pseudonym John Morris), The Candywine Development, Collins, 1970. (With Morris Cargill under pseudonym John Morris), The Checkerboard Caper, Citadel, 1975. The Sure...
Television Plays
Freedom Man, BBC, 1957. (With James Mitchell) Soldier inthe Snow, BBC, 1960. A World Inside, BBC, 1962.
Other
(With Rex Nettleford) Our Heritage, University of the West Indies, 1963. (Editor), Carifesta Forum: An Anthology of Twenty Caribbean Voices, Carifesta 76, 1976. (Editor), The Search For Solutions: Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Michael Manley, Maple House, 1976. (With Lawrence Coote and and Lyndon Facey) Testing Democracy Through Elections: A Tale of Five Elections, Bustamante Institute of Public and International Affairs, 1985.
Books
Dance, Daryl C., New World Adams: Interviews with West Indian Writers, Peepal Tree Press, 1992. Hughes, Michael, A Companion to West Indian Literature, Collins, 1979. James, Louis, ed., The Islands In Between: Essays on West Indian Literature, Oxford UniversityPress, 1968. King, Bruce, ed., West Indian Literature, Archon, 1979. Ramchand, Kenneth, The West Indian Novel and Its Background, Barnes and Noble, 1970. Skinner, John, The Stepmother Tongue: An Introduction to New Anglophone Fiction, P...
Periodicals
Anales del Caribe, Vol. 3, 1983, pp. 240-277. Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 16, March 1970, pp. 28-38. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, July 1969, pp. 45-58; November 1990, pp. 109-119. —Chris Routledge
Nov 30, 2013 · Hearne was an underage Royal Air Force volunteer with dreams of glory in 1943, at not quite seventeen, and on his way to training in Canada was shocked at his encounter with American racism: “There were no shades of black and white as existed in the West Indies and he recognised that he was almost an interloper on the white side of the divide.”
The West Indian who comes near to being an exception to the peasant feel is John Hearne. His key obsession is with an agricultural middle class in Jamaica.
John Hearne was a middle-class Jamaican writer whose novels were a voice for his class. That fact contributed to his fall from grace in the early post-independence era when the concerns of the country’s poor black majority rightly took precedence both politically and culturally.
John Hearne (1926-1994) was a white Jamaican novelist, journalist, and teacher. Often overlooked as are other white Jamaican writers Hearne is integral to Jamaican cultural history in...
The author of three novels, JOHN HEARNE grew up and was educated in Jamaica, and in his writings he describes with dramatic force the people and customs of the islands of the Caribbean.
