Eric Walrond

Michael Niblett (University of Warwick)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.1: Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Melanie Otto (Trinity College Dublin), Jak Peake (University of Essex), Abigail Ward (University of Nottingham)

Dates

Born 18 Dec 1898
Died 8 Aug 1966
Activity 1918-1966

Places

Born in Guyana
Active in Guyana

Activities

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Story-writer

Resources

Walrond's Works

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Eric Derwent Walrond was born on 18th December 1898 in Georgetown, British Guiana (Guyana). In 1906 he moved to Barbados with his mother and siblings, before the family migrated to Colón, Panama, in 1911, where Walrond's father had gone some years before in search of work on the Panama Canal, then under construction by the United States. In Panama, Walrond became fluent in Spanish and found employment as a clerk in the Health Department of the Canal Commission in Cristobal, before working as a reporter for

The Panama Star and Herald

between 1914 and 1916. In 1918 he moved to the United States, settling in New York City. Here he became associate editor for Marcus Garvey's

Negro World

(1921-1923) and business manager for the Urban League's

Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life

(1925-1927).…

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Citation: Niblett, Michael. "Eric Walrond". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 September 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4589, accessed 25 November 2024.]