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Biography
Walrond born in Georgetown,
British Guiana, in 1898, is the son of a Barbadian mother and a Guyanese
father. His first eight years were spent in Guiana. But his parents' marital
difficulties led Walrond into an almost wayfaring existence. In 1906, his
father abandoned Walrond and his mother. His mother moved the two of them
to a small village in Barbados to live with their relatives. Walrond began
his education in Barbados at St. Stephen's Boys' School, located in Black
Rock. Around 1910, Walrond and his mother traveled in search of his father
to the Panama Canal Zone, where thousands of west Indians and Guyanese
were employed to dig the canal. Walrond and his mother never found his
father and they made a home in Colon. It is in Colon where Walrond completed
his public and secondary school education between 1913 and 1916. During
his education in Colon, Walrond is exposed to the Spanish culture and becomes
bilingual. Walrond is trained as a secretary and stenographer, and acquires
a job as a clerk in the Health Department of the Canal commission at Cristobal.
Through the years 1916 and 1918 he begins a journalistic career which he
will pursue while in the States. Walrond works as a general reporter, court
reporter, andsportswriter for the Panama Star-Herald, "the most important
contemporaneous newspaper in the American tropics." Walrond's association
with the Harlem Renaissance also has a strong literary influence. In the
early 1920s he publishes short stories in periodicals such as the Opportunity,
Smart Set, and Vanity Fair. In 1923, he writes "On Being a Domestic," "Miss
Kenny's Marriage," "The Stone Rebounds," and "The Stone Rebounds." Walrond's
stories focused on a realistic presentation of racial situations in New
York City. In 1924 he focuses on a more impressionistic presentation of
life in the American tropics. He does not return to the realistic form
of writing until 1927, when he writes "City Love," which is the last story
he publishes before he leaves the United States.
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Works
"On Being Black" (1922) "On being a Domestic," "Miss Kenny's Marriage," "The Stone Rebounds," "Cynthia Goes to the Prom," "The New Negro Faces America," "The Negro Exodus from the South" (1923 ) "Vignettes of the Dusk," "The Black City" (1924 ) "A Cholo Romance," "Imperator Africanus, Marcus Garvey: Menace or Promise?" (1925) Tropic Death(1926) "City Love" (1927)
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Links
PAL - Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance
- Eric Walrond (1898-1966)
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Send questions or comments about the Web site to Dr. Seodial Deena, East Carolina University, Department of English, Multicultural Literature Program. |