Roy Heath, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Roy Heath

Guyanese writer

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1926

Place of Birth: Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana

Date of Death: 14-May-2008

Profession: lawyer, novelist

Nationality: Guyana

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Roy Heath

  • Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) was a Guyanese writer who settled in the UK, where he lived for five decades.
  • He was most noted for his "Georgetown Trilogy" of novels (also published in an omnibus volume as The Armstrong Trilogy, 1994), consisting of From the Heat of the Day (1979), One Generation (1980), and Genetha (1981).
  • Heath said that his writing was "intended to be a dramatic chronicle of twentieth-century Guyana".
  • His work has been described as "marked by comprehensive social observation, penetrating psychological analysis, and vigorous, picaresque action."

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