About Walter Adolphe Roberts
Lived 1886 – 1962 (aged 75). Walter Adolphe Roberts was an American editor, writer, poet and journalist.
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 15 October 1886.
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.
In 1938 Roberts met Wilfred Adolphus Domingo and the two formed the Jamaica Progressive League.
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).
He died in London at the age of 76, on 13 September 1962.
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Who was Walter Adolphe Roberts?
Jamaican editor, poet, journalist and author (1886-1962), in USA 1904-1949, initially involved in American literary life
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Walter Adolphe Roberts was born on 15 October 1886 in Jamaica.
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Walter Adolphe Roberts died on 13 September 1962 in London.
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Walter Adolphe Roberts was an editor, writer, poet and journalist.
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Walter Adolphe Roberts was American.
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