E.R. Braithwaite

Emerging from a Guyanese upbringing surrounded by academic achievement, Braithwaite attended Saint Ambrose Primary, Queen’s College, and later earned a physics master’s at Cambridge after wartime service as an RAF pilot and studies at City College of New York. His literary breakthrough came with the autobiographical novel To Sir, With Love (1959), which secured the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and wa… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources