Walter Adolphe Roberts Explained

Birth Date:	October 15, 1886
Death Date:	September 13, 1962
Birth Place:	Kingston, Jamaica
Death Place:	London, UK

Walter Adolphe Roberts (1886-1962) was a Jamaican born novelist, poet, and historian. Roberts served as a war correspondent during World War I, editor of multiple periodicals including Ainslee's Magazine, and authored over a dozen books.

Life and career

Roberts was born in Kingston, Jamaica on October 15, 1886.^[1]

He was an editor, war correspondent, and the author of several books of poetry and prose, as well as a historian of Jamaica and the Caribbean.^[2]

In 1938 Roberts met Wilfred Adolphus Domingo and the two formed the Jamaica Progressive League.^[3]

During his lifetime Roberts received several awards, including the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica (1941), the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Order of Merit (1950), the Gold Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica (1954), the title of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1961), and was posthumously awarded the Commander of the Order of Distinction by the Jamaican Government (1977).^[4]

He died in London at the age of 76, on September 13, 1962.^[5]

Bibliography

• Pierrot Wounded and Other Poems, Britton Publishing Company, 1919
• Pan and Peacocks-Poems, Four Seas Company, 1928
• The Haunting Hand, MacCauley Company, 1926
• The Mind Reader, MacCauley Company, 1929
• The Moralist, Mohawk Press, 1931
• The Top Floor Killer, Nicholson and Watson, 1935
• The Pomegranate, Bobbs-Merrill, 1978
• Royal Street: A Novel of Old New Orleans, Bobbs-Merrill, 1944
• Brave Mardi Gras: A New Orleans Novel of the '60s, Bobbs-Merrill, 1946
• Creole Dusk, Bobbs-Merrill, 1948
• The Single Star, Bobbs-Merrill, 1949
• Six Great Jamaicans, Pioneer Press, 1952
• Havana: The Portrait of a City, Bobbs-Merrill, 1953
• Jamaica: The Portrait of an Island, Bobbs-Merrill, 1955
• Caribbean Narrative, Heinemann, 1966,
• New Ships: An Anthology of West Indian Verse, Del Rey, 1978

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberts, Walter Adolphe. These many years : an autobiography. 2015. University of the West Indies Press. Hulme, Peter.. 978-976-640-511-3. Jamaica. 908020565.
2. Coverley. Roy. The Gentleman and Scholar. Pepperpot. 11. 52–53. 2.
3. July 21, 1974. W. Adolphe Roberts-the poet as nationalist. Sunday Gleaner. 24–25.
4. Web site: Walter Adolphe Roberts (1886 - 1962). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200424220653/https://nlj.gov.jm/project/walter-adolphe-roberts-1886-1962/. April 24, 2020. July 31, 2020. National Library of Jamaica.
5. Bennett. Wycliffe. 1963. W. Adolphe Roberts: The Man & The Poet. Pepperpot. 2. 51–52. 3.