Geoffrey Drayton

Geoffrey Drayton (born 13 February 1924)[1] is a Barbadian novelist, poet and journalist.

Life

Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there. In 1945 he went to Cambridge University, where he read economics, after which he spent some years teaching in Ottawa, Canada, returning to England in 1953.[2] He worked as a freelance journalist in London and Madrid. From 1954 to 1965 he worked for Petroleum Times, becoming its editor. In 1966 he became a petroleum consultant for the Economist Intelligence Unit.[3]

Drayton is the author of one volume of poetry, Three Meridians (1950), and two novels: Christopher (1959), which was first published in part in Bim magazine,[2] and Zohara (1961). He has also written short stories, such as "Mr Dombie the Zombie", which was broadcast on the BBC programme Caribbean Voices.[2]

Works

Novels

Poetry

Criticism

References

  1. Thomas Armstrong, "Lifting the lid on Geoffrey Drayton and his outsider role in Barbadian literature", Arts Etc.
  2. 1 2 3 "Drayton, Geoffrey", Michael Hughes, A Companion to West Indian Literature, Collins, 1979, pp. 42—3.
  3. Robin Myers, ed., A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language from 1940 to 1970, Pergamon Press, 1978.

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