Rosa Guy

Rosa Guy
Born
Rosa Cuthbert

(1922-09-01)September 1, 1922
Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago
DiedJune 3, 2012(2012-06-03) (aged 89)
Manhattan, New York, US
NationalityAmerican
OccupationWriter
Notable workBird at My Window (1966); The Friends (1973); Ruby (1976); Edith Jackson (1978); My Love, My Love: Or, The Peasant Girl (1985)
Spouse
Walter Guy
​
(m. 1941)​
(divorced 1946)
Children1

Rosa Cuthbert Guy (/ˈɡiː/) (September 1, 1922[1] – June 3, 2012) was a Trinidad-born American writer who grew up in the New York metropolitan area. Her family had immigrated and she was orphaned when young. Raised in foster homes, she later was acclaimed for her books of fiction for adults and young people that stressed supportive relationships.

Guy lived and worked in New York City, where she was among the founders of the Harlem Writers Guild in 1950. It was highly influential in encouraging African-American writers to gain publication and had a high rate of success. Guy died of cancer on June 3, 2012.[2]

Inscription by Guy on the flyleaf of a copy of her novel A Measure of Time: "To Walter Gaye my old and dear friend luck! Rosa Guy 6/29/83" (with a pencilled footnote in a different hand: "and ex- 'husband' ")
Pencilled note (in the same copy of A Measure of Time as the above inscription): "Rosa does not acknowledge this, but Dorine is a portrait of her stepmother"
  1. ^ Margalit Fox, "Rosa Guy, 89, Author of Forthright Novels for Young People, Dies", The New York Times, June 7, 2012.
  2. ^ "Rosa Guy page". African American Literature Book Club. Retrieved October 28, 2015.