For those of a similar name, see Thomas McDermott.
Thomas MacDermot
Born
26 June 1870
Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
Died
8 October 1933
Nationality
Jamaican
Occupation(s)
poet, novelist, and editor
Thomas MacDermot (26 June 1870[1] – 8 October 1933)[2] was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the Jamaica Times for more than 20 years. He was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture".[3] He also published under the pseudonym Tom Redcam (derived from his surname spelled in reverse).[4] He was Jamaica's first Poet Laureate.
^"Margaret Mary MacDermot and Thomas Henry MacDermot", de bene esse, 17 April 2013.
^Cite error: The named reference MMorris was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Michael Hughes, A Companion to West Indian Literature, Collins, 1979, p. 75.
^"Redcam, Tom (1870-1933)", Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly (eds), Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Routledge (1994), 2nd edition 2005, p. 1338.
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