| LC control no. | n 50048835 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6069.T16 |
| Personal name heading | St. Omer, Garth |
| Other standard no. | 92643899 |
| Associated country | Saint Lucia |
| Located | United States |
| Birth date | 1931-01-16 |
| Death date | 2018-04-24 |
| Place of birth | Castries (Saint Lucia) |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Saint Lucian literature (English) American literature authoship |
| Affiliation | University of the West Indies Princeton University University of California, Santa Barbara. Department of English |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists University and college faculty members College teachers |
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| Found in | Author's A room on the hill, 1968 The colonial novel, 1975: title page (Garth St. Omer) UMI title page (St. Somer, Garth, 1931-) Prisnms, 2015: page 137 (Garth St. Omer; born in Castries, St. Lucia in 1931; went to study French and Spanish at UWI in Jamaica in 1956; published four novels and a novella between 1964 and 1972; moved to the USA in the 1970s; completed a doctoral thesis at Princeton University in 1975; taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara until his retirement) Peepal Tree Press, July 8, 2020 (Garth St. Omer; St. Lucian-born novelist; born in Castries, St. Lucia (January 16th, 1931); passed away on 24th April in Santa Barbara, California; was educated at St. Mary's College and upon completion of his secondary education becams a junior teacher there; in 1956, entered the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Jamaica, where he read for a B.A. in French Literature; graduated from UWI in 1959; in the early 1970's, migrated to the USA; completed doctoral studies in Comparative Literature at Princeton University in 1975; until his retirement in 2006, taught in the English department of the University of California in Santa Barbara) <https://www.peepaltreepress.com/blog/whappen/garth-st-omer-1931-2018> |
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