Eric D. Walrond

Eric D. Walrond
BornEric Derwent Walrond
(1898-12-18)18 December 1898
Georgetown, British Guiana
Died(1966-08-08)8 August 1966 (aged 67)
London, United Kingdom
Resting placeAbney Park Cemetery, London
OccupationWriter
CitizenshipBritish subject
Alma materColumbia University
Literary movementHarlem Renaissance

Eric Derwent Walrond (18 December 1898 – 8 August 1966) was an Afro-Caribbean Harlem Renaissance writer and journalist. Born in Georgetown, British Guiana, the son of a Barbadian mother and a Guyanese father, Walrond was well-travelled, moving early in life to live in Barbados, and then Panama, New York City, and eventually England. He made a lasting contribution to literature, his most famous book being Tropic Death, published in New York City in 1926 when he was 28; it remains in print today as a classic of its era.