Wilson Harris

Wilson Harris was born Theodore Wilson Harris in New Amsterdam, Guyana on March 24, 1921. He passed the surveying examination in 1942 and worked as a land surveyor for almost 15 years. He joined a government surveying expedition into the Cuyuni River area in the north of Guyana. He moved to England in 1959. His first novel, Palace of the Peacock, was published in 1960. He wrote a total of 26 novels during his lifetime including Resurrection at Sorrow Hill, Jonestown, The Dark Jester, and The Ghost of Memory. He was knighted in 2010. He died on March 8, 2018 at the age of 96.