Lucinda Roy

Ole Birk Laursen ( Københavns Universitet)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 19 Dec 1955
Activity 1975-ongoing

Places

Born in England
Active in United States; United Kingdom

Cultural Identities

African American

Activities

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Novelist
Poet

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Born in Battersea, London, in 1955 to Maroon Jamaican artist, sculptor and writer, Namba Roy (1910-1961), and Yvonne Roy,

née

Shelley, an English actress, Lucinda Roy is an accomplished poet, novelist and Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech, VA, United States. She is the author of two collections of poetry,

Wailing the Dead to Sleep

(1988) and

The Humming Birds

(1995), which won The Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize, two short stories, “Seeing Things in the Dark” (1999) and “Effigies” (2006), and two novels,

Lady Moses: A Novel

(1998) and

The Hotel Alleluia

(2000). Her most recent effort is a non-fiction memoir-critique,

No Right to Remain Silent: The Tragedy at Virginia Tech

(2009), which details Roy’s personal experience of the 2007 school shooting that took place at…

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Citation: Laursen, Ole Birk. "Lucinda Roy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 May 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3874, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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