E A Markham

Born in 1939 on the West Indian island of Montserrat, E.A. ("Archie") Markham lived mainly in Britain. He worked as a media co-ordinator in Papua New Guinea, directed the Caribbean Theatre Workshop, and ran the Creative Writing department at Sheffield Hallam University. He edited anthologies of Caribbean writing for Penguin and Bloodaxe. He died in Paris in 2008.

Born in 1939 on the West Indian island of Montserrat, E.A. ("Archie") Markham lived mainly in Britain. He worked as a media co-ordinator in Papua New Guinea, directed the Caribbean Theatre Workshop, and ran the Creative Writing department at Sheffield Hallam University. He edited anthologies of Caribbean writing for Penguin and Bloodaxe. He died in Paris in 2008. See less