Geoffrey Drayton

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

Geoffrey Drayton
Born(1924-02-13)13 February 1924
Near Bridgetown, Barbados
OccupationWriter, novelist, essayist, poet
NationalityBarbadian
Notable worksChristopher (London: Collins, 1959), Zohara (Secker & Warburg, 1961)

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, Ontario, 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
  • Christopher, London: Collins, 1959; Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series, 1972.
  • Zohara, London: Secker and Warburg, 1961.

Poetry
  • Three Meridians, Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1950.

Criticism
  • A. N. Forde, "Christopher" (review), in Bim, vol. 8, no. 29 (June/December 1951), p. 64.
  • John Harrison, "Three Meridians" (review), in Bim, vol. 4, no. 14 (June 1951), pp. 144–5.
  • Kenneth Ramchand, "Terrified Consciousness", in Journal of Commonwealth Literature, no. 7 (July 1969), pp. 8–19.
  • Derek Walcott, "Zohara" (review), in Trinidad Guardian, 12 November 1961, p. 26.

References
  1. Thomas Armstrong, "Lifting the lid on Geoffrey Drayton and his outsider role in Barbadian literature", Arts Etc.
  2. "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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