Alfred Mendes, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Mendes

Trinidad and Tobago writer

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1897

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1991

Profession: writer, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Alfred Hubert Mendes M.M.
(18 November 1897 – 1991) was a Trinidad and Tobago novelist and short-story writer.
He was a leading member of the 1930s "Beacon group" of writers (named after the literary magazine The Beacon) in Trinidad and Tobago that included Albert Gomes, C.
L.
R.
James and Ralph de Boissière.
Mendes is best known as the author of two novels — Pitch Lake (1934) and Black Fauns (1935) — and for his short stories written during the 1920s and 1930s.
He was "one of the first West Indian writers to set the pattern of emigration in the face of the lack of publishing houses and the small reading public in the West Indies.