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2 unusual facts about Alfred Mendes


Alfred Mendes

Alfred Hubert Mendes (18 November 1897 – 1991), novelist and short-story writer, was a leading member of the 1930s "Beacon group" of writers (named after the literary magazine The Beacon) in Trinidad that included Albert Gomes, C. L. R. James and Ralph de Boissière.

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Mendes and his wife Ellen both died in 1991 in Barbados and are buried together there in Christ Church Cemetery.



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