E.R. Braithwaite, a Guyana-born novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat who wrote the international bestseller To Sir, With Love, has died. His companion, Ginette Ast, told the Associated Press that Braithwaite died Monday at a hospital in Maryland. He was 104. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Braithwaite attended Queen’s College, Guyana and the City College of New York. During World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot and afterward attended the University of…...
- 12/14/2016
- Deadline
E.R. Braithwaite, the Guyanese author, educator and diplomat whose years teaching in the slums of London's East End inspired the international best-seller To Sir, With Love and the popular Sidney Poitier movie of the same name, has died. He was 104.
His companion, Ginette Ast, told the Associated Press that Braithwaite became ill Monday and died at the Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Md.
Schooled in Guyana, the U.S. and the U.K., Braithwaite wrote several fiction and nonfiction books, often focusing on racism and class and the contrast between first world and colonial cultures. He was regarded...
His companion, Ginette Ast, told the Associated Press that Braithwaite became ill Monday and died at the Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Md.
Schooled in Guyana, the U.S. and the U.K., Braithwaite wrote several fiction and nonfiction books, often focusing on racism and class and the contrast between first world and colonial cultures. He was regarded...
- 12/13/2016
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BBC One has revealed a slate of new drama projects in the works or set to air in the UK later this Fall alongside new episodes of returning favorites like "Doctor Who," "Luther" and "Sherlock".
First up there's the epic event series "Troy – Fall Of A City," a multi-part drama which will be set against the backdrop of the war between Greece and Troy and focuses on the collapse of one family. This explores the origins of the saga and offers a Trojan point of view to events.
Next comes an adaptation of Jk Rowling's secretly-penned post-'Harry Potter' series of detective novels "The Cormoran Strike Mysteries". The contemporary series will focus on a war veteran turned private detective.
A new telemovie adaptation of E.R. Braithwaite's 1959 novel "To Sir With Love" is on the way which will be set in the East End following WW2 and follows...
First up there's the epic event series "Troy – Fall Of A City," a multi-part drama which will be set against the backdrop of the war between Greece and Troy and focuses on the collapse of one family. This explores the origins of the saga and offers a Trojan point of view to events.
Next comes an adaptation of Jk Rowling's secretly-penned post-'Harry Potter' series of detective novels "The Cormoran Strike Mysteries". The contemporary series will focus on a war veteran turned private detective.
A new telemovie adaptation of E.R. Braithwaite's 1959 novel "To Sir With Love" is on the way which will be set in the East End following WW2 and follows...
- 9/23/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Rapidly skimming the latest press release from the BBC, unveiling upcoming BBC One projects, not really expecting to find anything for *us* in it, I almost missed this listing... - "To Sir With Love" - 1x90 - adapted by Hanif Kureishi, from the autobiographical novel by ER Braithwaite, made by Rainmark Films. Yes indeed, it is what you think it is. BBC One has commissioned a 90-minute film based on Guyanese author E.R. Braithwaite's 1959 novel, which was adapted for the screen in 1967 and starred Sidney Poitier, in a post-war London tale of social and racial strife in an inner-city school. In the book, relieved of war duty, Guyanese engineer...
- 9/22/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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