Edgar Austin Mittelholzer (16 December 1909 – 6 May 1965) was a Guyanese novelist, the earliest novelist from the West Indian region to establish himself in Europe and gain a significant European readership. Mittelholzer, who earned his living almost exclusively by writing fiction, is considered the first professional novelist to come out of the English-speaking Caribbean. His novels include characters and situations from a variety of places within the Caribbean, and range in time from the early period of European settlement to the 20th century. They feature a cross-section of ethnic groups and social classes, dealing with subjects of historical, political, psychological, and moral interest. Mittelholzer is "certainly the most prolific novelist to be produced by the Caribbean". Mittelholzer committed suicide in England in 1965.
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Fiction, Slavery, Blacks, Fiction in English, Guyana, fiction, Social life and customs, Caribbean, Caribbean area, fiction, Communal living, Description and travel, English literature, Families, Familles, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, sagas, Ghost stories, Manners and customs, Mœurs et coutumes, Offices, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Racially mixed womenTime
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- Edgar Mittel-holzer
- E.Mittelholzer
- E. Mittelholzer
- Edgar Mittelholzer
- Edgar Austin Mittelholzer
- Edgar Mittelhölzer
- Edgar Mittel-Holzer
- Mittel-holzer
- EDGAR MITTELHOLZER
- MITTELHOLZER EDGAR
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