Minty Alley

Minty Alley is a groundbreaking novel written by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James in the late 1920s, and published by Frederick Warburg Secker & Warburg in 1936, as West Indian literature was starting to flourish. It was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in England. James arrived in the United Kingdom in 1932, intent on a career as a writer, and found employment writing about cricket for the Manchester Guardian. He soon became swept up in politics, writing books about the Bolshevik and Haitian revolutions, leaving his literary ambitions behind. He died in London in 1989.

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Novel - Trinidadian - Writer - C. L. R. James - Secker & Warburg - 1936 - United Kingdom - 1989

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