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James Berry, OBE, Hon. FRSL (28 September 1924 – 20 June 2017), [1] was a Jamaican poet who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois. [2]
James Berry's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He earned most of his wealth from his writing career. He also received several awards and honors for his work, which added to his net worth.
James Berry is the author of several books of poetry and children’s literature, including A Story I Am In: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), Windrush Songs (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), and Only One of Me: Selected Poems (Macmillan, 2004). He lived in England until his death on June 20, 2017.
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Biography. James Berry was born in 1924 in Jamaica and after working in the US for a time, settled in Britain in 1948. His adult poetry collections are: Fractured Circles (1979); Lucy's Letters and Loving (1982); Chain of Days (1985); Hot Earth Cold Earth (1995); and Windrush Songs (2007).
20 Ιουν 2017 · James Berry, OBE, Hon FRSL (1924-2017) was a black Jamaican poet and writer who settled in England in the 1940s. His poetry is notable for using a mixture of standard English and Jamaican Patois.
James Berry is one of Britain’s poetry titans. Born in 1924 in colonial Jamaica in a small coastal village called Fair Prospect, Berry travelled to the United States before finally settling in Britain in 1948. `Instantly, my great obsession was to improve my English language so I could begin to write’, wrote Berry of his arrival in England.
