Phyllis Shand Allfrey

Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Born	Phyllis Byam Shand (1908-10-24)24 October 1908 Roseau, Dominica, West Indies
Died	4 February 1986(1986-02-04) (aged 77) Dominica
Occupation(s)	Writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician
Notable work	The Orchid House (1953)

Phyllis Byam Shand Allfrey (24 October 1908 – 4 February 1986) was a West Indian writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. She is best known for her first novel, The Orchid House (1953), based on her own early life, which in 1991 was turned into a Channel 4 television miniseries of the same name in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}