We warmly welcome Shivaun Hearne who will be tweeting about the life and work of the Jamaican writer, John Hearne, from Jan 31-Feb 7. This Twitter Residency will help to mark John Hearne’s birthday on February 4!
John Hearne is the author of Voices under the Window (1955), The Eye of the Storm (1958), The Faces of Love (1959), Stranger at the Gate (1959), The Autumn Equinox (1959), Land of the Living (1961) and The Sure Salvation (1985). In 2016, UWI Press published John Hearne’s Short Fiction.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Hearne collaborated with Morris Cargill on three thrillers “involving an imaginary Jamaican secret service” – Fever Grass, The Candywine Development, and The Checkerboard Caper. These books are published under the pseudonym John Morris. The University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica holds the John Hearne Collection spanning 1982–1994. It consists of biographical papers, tributes, correspondence, newspaper clippings related to the death of John Hearne, his manuscripts and more.
Shivaun Hearne is an editor at House of Anansi Press in Toronto. She is the author of John Hearne’s Life and Fiction: A Critical Biographical Study and editor of John Hearne’s Short Fiction.
