Earl Lovelace

For the peerage, see Earl of Lovelace. Earl Lovelace is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer. Born in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago, Earl Lovelace attended Scarborough Methodist Primary School, Scarborough, Tobago , Nelson Street Boys, R.C., Port of Spain, Trinidad , and Ideal High School, Port of Spain, Trinidad . He worked at the Trinidad Guardian as a proofreader from 1953 to 1954, and then for the Department of Forestry and the Ministry of Agriculture . Lovelace studied at Howard University, Washington, DC, from 1966 to 1967, and in 1974 he received an MA... in English from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, where he was also Visiting Novelist. In 1980, he became a visiting writer at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He taught at Federal City College , Washington, DC , and from 1977 to 1987 he lectured in literature and creative writing at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine.
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