Eric Roach Manuscripts
 Eric Roach was born in Tobago in 1915. After a secondary education at Bishop's High School, Tobago, he entered the teaching profession. In 1939, he joined the army in Trinidad and served as a volunteer with the South Caribbean forces during World War II. After a short stint in the Civil Service, he worked as a journalist with the Trinidad Guardian and The Nation. At the age of 39, he turned his attention to writing and produced many short stories, poems, plays, articles, and a radio serial. He published poems using the pseudonym Merton Maloney. He was also a regular contributor to the BBC Caribbean Voices programme. He died in 1974.
The collection contains manuscript copies of plays, journal articles, poems, radio programmes, notes and an unpublished novel.
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