[1] Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia (1979), and James Vinson, Contemporary Novelists (1972). Other sources give 1920 or 1922 as his year of birth.
High School: Queen's College, Guyana
University: BS, City College of New York (1940)
University: MSc Physics, Caius College, Cambridge University (1949)
University: University of London
Guyanese Ambassador to Venezuela (1968-69)
Guyanese Ambassador to the United Nations (1967-68)
UNESCO Lecturer and Consultant, Paris (1963-66)
World Veterans' Foundation Human Rights Officer, Paris (1960-63)
Author of books:
To Sir, With Love (1959, memoir)
A Kind of Homecoming (1962)
Paid Servant (1962, memoir)
Choice of Straws (1965, novel)
