1928–2014
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Joan Riley
1958–
United Kingdom
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Biography
Joan Riley (born 26 May 1958) is a Jamaican-British writer. Her 1985 debut novel The Unbelonging made her "the first Afro-Caribbean woman author to write about the experiences of Blacks in England".
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