Cyril Palmer

Cyril Everard Palmer (15 October 193016 June 2013) was a Jamaican writer.

Early life Palmer was born on 15 October 1930 in Kendal, Hanover. He attended Kendal Elementary School and became a teacher after graduating from the Kingston-based Mico Teachers' College. Before becoming a writer, Palmer worked as a journalist .

Career Palmer wrote over fifteen children's books in his lifetime, the last of which being A Time To Say Goodbye (2006). Primarily set in the Jamaican countryside, his children's book received critical acclaim for their "craftsmanship and sympathetic humour". He also wrote an adult novel titled A Broken Vessel (1960).

Recognition In 1977, for his contributions to Jamaican literature, Palmer was awarded the Certificate of Merit by the Jamaican Reading Association. A Taste of Danger (1963) The Cloud with the Silver Lining (1966) Big Doc Bitterroot (1968) The Sun Salutes You (1970) The Hummingbird People (1971) A Cow Called Boy (1972) The Wooing of Beppo Tate (1972) Baba and Mr. Big (1972) My Father, Sun-Sun Johnson (1974) A Dog Called Houdini (1978) Beppo Tate and Roy Penner; The Runaway Marriage Brokers: Two Stories (1980) Houdini, Come Home (1981) A Time To Say Goodbye (2006)