Alvin Gladstone Bennett (1918–2004),[1] also known as A. G. Bennett, was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, and poet. Born in Falmouth, Trelawny Parish, he left his job as a purser in 1954 to become a journalist for The Gleaner.[1] His newspaper columns were often witty and offered "acerbic comments on the affairs of God and humanity".[2] In 1958, he was posted to Britain as the newspaper's British correspondent.[1] He was also a contributor to the South London Press.[3] While in Britain, Bennett engaged in community service; his interactions with the Caribbean immigrant community would inspire his first novel, Because They Know Not,[1] published in 1959.[4] His second satirical novel God the Stonebreaker was published in 1964.[2] [5] Some of his short stories were broadcast by the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s.[1] Bennett was also a prolific poet. His poem, "The Black Man", was published in the Jamaican newspaper Public Opinion in June 1942,[6] whereas his undated anthology of poems, titled Out of Darkness, "displays a degree of irreverence similar to that of his novels", but comprises "conservative" poetry that is "traditional in structure".[2] In 1982, he relocated to Canada,[2] where he would spend the remainder of his life.[1]