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词条 Christine Craig
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  1. Biography

  2. Selected works

  3. References

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|birth_date=24 June 1943
|birth_place=Kingston, Jamaica
|occupation=writer}}Christine Craig (born 24 June 1943) is a Jamaican writer living in Florida, US.[1][1] She has published collections of poetry and short stories, as well as children's fiction and several non-fiction works.[3]

Biography

Christine Craig was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in rural Saint Elizabeth. She received a BA from the University of the West Indies.[1] In 1970, she published her first work, Emanuel and His Parrot, a children's book.[5] She began publishing poetry in the late 1970s and published her first poetry collection, Quadrille for Tigers, in 1984. In 1993, Craig published a collection of short stories entitled Mint Tea.[2] She also researched, wrote and presented a series of stories on Jamaican history for children's television.[3]

Craig tutored English literature at the University of the West Indies and was adjunct professor at Barry University in Florida.[1] In 1989, she took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She was editor in Miami for The Jamaica Gleaner from 1990 to 1998.[1] She later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[4]

Selected works

  • Emanuel and His Parrot (Oxford University Press, 1970)
  • Emanuel Goes to Market, children's fiction (Oxford University Press, 1971)
  • Quadrille for Tigers, poetry (Mina Press, 1984)
  • The Bird Gang, children's fiction (Heinemann Caribbean, 1990)
  • Guyana at the Crossroads, non-fiction (University of Miami, 1992), with Denis Watson
  • Jamaica's National Report to the World Conference on the Environment (1992), co-editor
  • Mint Tea and Other Stories (Heinemann, 1993, {{ISBN|978-0435989323}})
  • Poems All Things Bright & Quadrille for Tigers (Peepal Tree Press, 2010, {{ISBN|978-1845231729}})

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url = http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000021404&source=Bookmark&u=mlin_n_umass&jsid=5a04670b7ee5cbe0a07cd4ad7d86b552|title = Contemporary Authors Online|date = 2013|accessdate =20 December 2015|website = Biography in Context|publisher = |last = |first = }}
2. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=nGfMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA276 |chapter=Craig, Christine (1943– )|author=Elaine Salvory (Fido)|title=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English |pages=276–77 |editor=Benson, Eugene |editor2=Conolly, L. W. |year=2004 |isbn=1134468482}}
3. ^Biographical note, {{cite book |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=j5bLB3uWs14C&pg=PP3 |title=Mint Tea and Other Stories |last=Craig |first=Christine |year=1993 |isbn=9780435989323}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.peepaltreepress.com/authors/christine-craig |title=Christine Craig |publisher=Peepal Tree Press}}
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