Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Andrew Salkey
![Andrew Salkey](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: January 30, 1928
Died: April 28, 1995 (aged 67)
Bio: Andrew Salkey was a novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Haitian origin. He was born in Panama but raised in Jamaica, moving to Britain in the 1950s to pursue university education.
Known for:
- Escape to an autumn pavement (1959)
- Brother Anancy and other stories (1993)
- Away: Poems (1980)
- Anancy's score (1973)