D'Costa, Jean (1937–)
D'Costa, Jean (1937–)
Jamaican poet and children's writer. Born 1937 in Jamaica; educated at University of West Indies, University College, London, and universities of Oxford and Indiana.
Taught literature at University of West Indies; writings include Sprat Morrison (1972), Escape to Last Man Peak (1975), and (with Barbara Lalla) Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole (1990); with Velma Pollard, edited short-story anthology Over Our Way (1981).
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