E. R. Braithwaite was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1912.
Educated at the City College of New York and the University of
Cambridge, he served in the Royal Air Force during World War II.
Braithwaite spent 1950 to 1960 in London, first as a schoolteacher
and then as a welfare worker—experiences he described in To Sir,
With Love and Paid Servant, respectively. In 1966 he was appointed
Guyana’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United
Nations. He also held positions at the World Veterans Federation
and UNESCO, was a professor of English at New York University’s
Institute for Afro-American Affairs, taught creative writing at
Howard University, and was the author of five nonfiction books and
two novels. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 104.
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