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Roy Heath
Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) was a Guyanese writer who settled in the UK, where he lived for five decades. He was most noted for his "Georgetown Trilogy" of novels (also published in an omnibus volume as ''The Armstrong Trilogy'', 1994), consisting of ''From the Heat of the Day'' (1979), ''One Generation'' (1980), and ''Genetha'' (1981). Heath said that his writing was "intended to be a dramatic chronicle of twentieth-century Guyana". His work has been described as "marked by comprehensive social observation, penetrating psychological analysis, and vigorous, picaresque action."〔(Roy Heath Biography ), JRank.〕
==Biography==
Roy Heath was born in what was then British Guiana, and "had African, Indian, European and Amerindian blood running through his veins".〔("Roy A. K. Heath" ), ''The West Indian Encyclopedia''.〕 He was the second son and youngest of the four children of Melrose Arthur Heath (d. 1928), head teacher of a primary school, and his wife, Jessie de Weever (d. 1991), music teacher.〔Louis James, ("Heath, Roy Aubrey Kelvin (1926–2008)" ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, January 2012; accessed 2 March 2015/〕 Educated at Central High School, Georgetown, he worked as a Treasury clerk (1944–51) before leaving for England in 1951. He attended the University of London (1952-6), earning a B.A. Honours degree in Modern Languages. He also studied law and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1964 (and to the Guyana bar in 1973), although he never practised as a lawyer, pursuing a career since 1959 as a writer and a schoolteacher in London, where he lived until his death at the age of 81. In his later years he had suffered from Parkinson's disease.〔Margaret Busby, ("Roy AK Heath" (obituary) ), ''The Guardian'', 20 May 2008.〕
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