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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.

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



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