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Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy (born 7 March 1956) is an English author, born in London to Jamaican parents who sailed to England on the ''Empire Windrush'' in 1948. Levy's novels frequently engage topics related to Jamaican diaspora peoples in England and the ways in which they negotiate racial, cultural, and national identities.
==Identity and background==
Andrea Levy is of primarily Afro-Jamaican descent. She has a Jewish paternal grandfather and a Scots maternal great-grandfather.〔
Growing up on a council estate in Highbury, London, "she ate a lot of sweets, watched a lot of soap operas and 'lived the life of an ordinary London working-class girl'."〔Ruth Scurr, ("Andrea Levy’s islands" ), ''The Times Literary Supplement'', 4 December 2014.〕 In her mid-twenties she did work for a social institution that included dealing with racist attacks. She also worked part-time in the BBC costume department, while starting a graphic design company with her husband Bill Mayblin. During this time she experienced a form of awakening to her identity concerning both her gender and her race. She also became aware of the power of books and began to read "excessively": it was easy enough to find literature by black writers from the United States, but she could find very little literature from black writers in the United Kingdom.〔Raekha Prasad, ("Two sides to every story" ), ''The Guardian'', 4 March 1999.〕
Levy began writing only in her mid-thirties, having enrolled in Alison Fell's Creative Writing class at the City Lit in 1989, continuing on the course for seven years.〔(Interview with Andrea Levy ), City Lit, 30 July 2010.〕
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