Jacques Stephen Alexis

Jacques Stephen Alexis was born on 22 April 1922 in Gonaïves, the son of the diplomat and writer Stephen Alexis. A pupil at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, then at Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Port-au-Prince, he became a doctor. He ran the review The Hive, took part in the uprising that overthrew President Lescot in 1946, then specialised in neurology in Paris. In 1959 he founded an opposition party and had to go into exile. Having returned secretly in April 1961, he was arrested by Duvalier's men and was never seen again.

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• NovelGeneral Sun, My BrotherCompère Général SoleilJacques Stephen Alexis · 1955Literature