Rosa Cuthbert Guy was born in 1922 in Diego martin, on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. She and her younger sister Ameze were left with relatives when their parents Audrey and Henry Cuthbert emigrated in 1927 to the United States. The children did not join their parents in Harlem, New York, until 1932. The following year their mother became ill, and Rosa and her sister were sent to Brooklyn to live with a cousin. After their mother's death in 1934, the two girls returned to Harlem to live with their father, who remarried.
When their father died in 1937, the orphaned girls were taken into the welfare system and lived in foster homes. Rosa left school at the age of 14 and took a job in a garment factory to support herself and her sister.two stories by her, "Magnify" and "Carnival", appeared in the Trinidad Nation newspaper in 1965, and the following year her first novel, Bird at My Window, was published.Rosa Guy's work has received The New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citation (for The Friends, in 1973), the Coretta Scott King Award, and the American Library Association′s Best Book for Young Adults Award.Guy's 1985 novel, My Love, My Love: Or, The Peasant Girl, has been described as a Caribbean re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid". with a dash of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the tale, Desiree is a beautiful peasant who falls in love with a handsome upper class boy whom she saved in an accident. Regrettably, his family does not approve of Desiree, for she is too black and too poor for their son who will be king. Concepts of sacrifice and pure love reign throughout the novel. It was adapted for the Broadway musical, Once on This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran for a year from 1990 to 1991. I found one interview video of Rosa Guy getting interviewed about her awards and her author accomplishments.
Rosa guy is somewhat similar to the book the friends because she and her sister also went through the same things as the characters from the book. They both had to leave their home when their mother died and had to go live with their father just like the main characters from the book. She wrote the book from her own childhood experience. https://Wikipedia/wiki/Rosa_Guy(links)
When their father died in 1937, the orphaned girls were taken into the welfare system and lived in foster homes. Rosa left school at the age of 14 and took a job in a garment factory to support herself and her sister.two stories by her, "Magnify" and "Carnival", appeared in the Trinidad Nation newspaper in 1965, and the following year her first novel, Bird at My Window, was published.Rosa Guy's work has received The New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citation (for The Friends, in 1973), the Coretta Scott King Award, and the American Library Association′s Best Book for Young Adults Award.Guy's 1985 novel, My Love, My Love: Or, The Peasant Girl, has been described as a Caribbean re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid". with a dash of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the tale, Desiree is a beautiful peasant who falls in love with a handsome upper class boy whom she saved in an accident. Regrettably, his family does not approve of Desiree, for she is too black and too poor for their son who will be king. Concepts of sacrifice and pure love reign throughout the novel. It was adapted for the Broadway musical, Once on This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran for a year from 1990 to 1991. I found one interview video of Rosa Guy getting interviewed about her awards and her author accomplishments.
Rosa guy is somewhat similar to the book the friends because she and her sister also went through the same things as the characters from the book. They both had to leave their home when their mother died and had to go live with their father just like the main characters from the book. She wrote the book from her own childhood experience. https://Wikipedia/wiki/Rosa_Guy(links)
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