Roger Mais

Roger Mais was born on 11 August 1905 in Kingston, into a middle-class family, and grew up in the island's mountains, on a coffee estate. In turn a photographer, insurance salesman and journalist, he wrote from 1939 to 1952 for a weekly close to the People's National Party, which he had joined. An article of 1944 denouncing Churchill's wish to keep the empire earned him six months in prison for sedition. He left in 1952 for England and then France, where he exhibited his painting, and returned to Jamaica, where he died in June 1955.

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• NovelThe Hills Were Joyful TogetherRoger Mais · 1953Literature