Eric Walrond

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Eric Walrond was an Afro-Caribbean Harlem Renaissance writer and journalist. Born in British Guiana, he moved with his parents early in his life to Barbados, then Panama, New York City, and eventually England. His most famous book, Tropic Death, was published in New York City in 1926 when he was twenty-eight. Walrond was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction two years in a row, in 1928 and 1929.