Rosa guys biography
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Rosa Guy 1925–
PRINCIPAL WORKS
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
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FURTHER READING
(Full name Rosa Cuthbert Guy) Trinidad-born American novelist, editor, and author of young adult novels, juvenile novels, and picture books.
The following entry presents an overview of Guy's career through 2003.
Rosa guys biography
For further information on her life and career, see CLR, Volume 13.
INTRODUCTION
Among the most prominent Caribbean-American children's authors of the twentieth century, Guy offers young readers a glimpse inside the changing world of the urban ghetto as seen through the eyes of its children.
Recognized with literary awards both nationally and abroad—including the Children's Literature Association's Phoenix Award for The Disappearance (1979)—Guy's works are intentionally problematic as are her colorful protagonists.
Chiefly a fiction writer for young adults, Guy began her career by chronicling the lives of young African- and Caribbean-American women but l