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E R Braithwaite


Guyana (1912 - 2016)

E.R. (Edward Ricardo) Braithwaite was a novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people.

Braithwaite is perhaps best known as an author for his autobiographical novel To Sir With Love set in an east London secondary school, later directed, produced and adapted for the screen by James Clavell starring Sidney Poitier as a schoolteacher from British Guiana.
 
 
Novels
   To Sir, with Love (1959)
   A Kind of Homecoming (1962)
   Paid Servant (1962)
   Choice of Straws (1965)
   Reluctant Neighbors (1972)
   Billingsly (2014)
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