Lenrie Peters (1932–2009)

Educated at the Prince of Wales School, Freetown, Sierra Leone, and at Cambridge University, England, where he studied medicine, Lenrie Peters was born at Bathurst (now Banjul) in The Gambia, where he now lives and practices medicine after having practiced for several years in Great Britain. A show more highly versatile and energetic man, Peters first established himself in modern African letters as a poet, with two poems published in several leading journals and anthologies and two poetry collections, Satellites (1967) and Katchikali (1971), before turning to the novel with The Second Round (1965). (Bowker Author Biography) show less