John Edgar Colwell Hearne occupation writer
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. He trained as a teacher at London University and from 1950 to 1952 taught in a Jamaican school. He also worked as a journalist. He then travelled in Europe for some years (part of the time with novelist Roger Mais), before returning to Jamaica in 1957. He returned to the UK in the summer of 1958 and taught English at Midhurst Grammar School before working in journalism into 1960.  He was subsequently on the staff of the Extra-Mural Department of the University of the West Indies, Mona.
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