Bell, Vera (1906–)
Bell, Vera (1906–)
Jamaican poet. Born 1906 in Jamaica; educated in Jamaica; attended Columbia University School of Library Service and London University.
Worked for Jamaica's Welfare Commission; was editor of Jamaican Writer; contributed to Jamaican Short Stories (1950), New Ships: An Anthology of West Indian Poems (1972) and You Better Believe It: Black Verse in English from Africa, the West Indies and the United States (1973); wrote the well-known poem, "Ancestor on the Auction Block" (1962).
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DIED: 1687, Beaconsfield, England
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Poetry
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Born: February 27, 1807
Portland, Maine
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