It also didn’t prepare him for what he’d confront later, in England. Braithwaite was born June 27, 1912, in the South American colony of British Guiana (now Guyana).Īs a black man growing up under British rule, he endured prejudice, but it didn’t keep him from getting an education. Sidney Poitier portrayed him in To Sir, With Love.Į.R. You may not recognize it, but you know who he is. His name is Edward Ricardo (E.R.) Braithwaite. “Is there another book in you?” the journalist asked. In 2012, his hometown newspaper interviewed him. Two years later, he wrote his first children’s book. In Spring 2006, a Connecticut college named him distinguished visiting professor. He simultaneously held down impressive day jobs-teacher, diplomat, professor, social worker. Yet he kept on writing-memoirs, novels, academic texts, eleven in all. No blog, website, or newspaper celebrated his eventful life or his world-famous book and its movie adaptation. Perhaps it’s because the book debuted in 1959 and the movie came out in 1967. An exceptional Later Bloomer turned 104 this week.
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