Michael Thelwell
Novelist, Author
1939 –
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Who is Michael Thelwell?
Michael Thelwell is an American novelist, essayist, professor and civil rights activist. He was in 1970 founding chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Born Michael Miles Thelwell in Ulster Spring, Jamaica, he attended Jamaica College and subsequently worked as public relations assistant for the Jamaica Industrial Development Corporation. In 1959 he moved to the United States, where he was educated at Howard University and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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- Born
- Jul 25, 1939
Jamaica - Also known as
- Michael Miles Thelwell
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Howard University
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on July 23, 2013
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