Thomas MacDermot

Thomas MacDermot

Thomas MacDermot was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the "Jamaica Times" for over twenty years. Thomas MacDermot worked to promote Jamaican literature through all of his writing, starting a weekly short story contest in the "Jamaica Times" in 1899, and starting the "All Jamaica Library" in 1903. The "All Jamaica Library" is a series of novellas and short stories written by Jamaicans about Jamaica which were reasonably priced to encourage local readers. Thomas MacDermot also published under the pseudonym Tom Redcam.

External links

* [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?b=UF00078556 "Becka’s Buckra Baby"] (1904)
* [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?b=UF00078555 "One Brown Girl and - a Jamaica Story"] (1909)
*Also in the "All Jamaica Library", but not written by Thomas MacDermot, [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?b=UF00078557 "Maroon Medicine,"] by E. A. Dodd (listed as E. Snod)


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