Carew, Jan Rynveld, 1920-2012
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Jan Rynveld Carew (24 September 1920, Agricola Rome, British Guiana–d. 6 December 2012, Louisville, KT); grew up in Guiana and the United States; studied at Howard University, Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University), Charles University, Prague,the Sorbonne, Paris; While living in England, he was an actor, editor, BBC broadcaster and writer, and lecturer; served as director of culture in Guiana, 1962; taught at Princeton, Rutgers, Illinois Wesleyan, Hampshire College, Northwestern, and Lincoln Universities; wrote novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, and other non-fiction, as well as children's stories and books,best known for his first novel, Black Midas (1958).
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