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Wilson Harris

Wilson HarrisAKA Theodore Wilson Harris

Born: 4-Mar-1921
Birthplace: New Amsterdam, British Guiana
Died: 8-Mar-2018
Location of death: Chelmsford, Essex, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: Guyana
Executive summary: Palace of the Peacock

Father: Theodore Harris
Mother: Millicent Glasford
Wife: Margaret (d. 2010, two daughters, two daughters, two sons)
Daughter: Alexis
Daughter: Denise
Son: Michael
Son: Nigel Harris

    University: Queen's College Georgetown, British Guiana (1934-39)

Author of books:
Fetish (1951, poetry)
The Well and the Land (1952, poetry)
Eternity to Season (1954, poetry)
Palace of the Peacock (1960, novel)
The Far Journey of Oudin (1961, novel)
The Whole Armour (1962, novel)
The Secret Ladder (1963, novel)
Heartland (1964, novel)
The Eye of the Scarecrow (1965, novel)
The Waiting Room (1967, novel)
Tradition, the Writer and Society (1967, essays)
Tumatumari (1968, novel)
Ascent to Omai (1970, novel)
The Sleepers of Roraima (1970, short stories)
The Age of the Rainmakers (1971, short stories)
Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness (1977, novel)
The Tree of the Sun (1978, novel)
The Angel at the Gate (1982, novel)
Carnival (1985, novel)
The Infinite Rehearsal (1987, novel)
The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990, novel)
Jonestown (1996, novel)
The Dark Jester (2001, novel)
The Mask of the Beggar (2003, novel)



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