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159pp , IN ENGLISH, ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Rosa Cuthbert Guy ( September 1, 1922 [ 1] - June 3, 2012 ) was a Trinidad -born American writer , acclaimed for his fiction for adults and teenagers . She died of cancer Sunday, June 3 , 2012..Nacido in Diego Martin , [ 1] in the Caribbean island of Trinidad , Ameze Rosa and his sister remained with his family when his parents , Audrey Henry Cuthbert and in 1927 emigrated to US . Children to their parents joined in Harlem in 1932. However , the following year his mother became ill , and Rosa and her sister were sent to Brooklyn to live with a cousin, whose accession to Garveyism and black nationalist policies profoundly affected Rosa. [3 ] On the death of his mother in 1934 they returned to Harlem to live with his father, who remarried , but he also died in 1937. Later, Rosa and her sister lived in foster homes. Rosa left school at fourteen and began working in a garment factory to support herself and her sister. [3 ] In 1941 , when he was nineteen , Rosa met and married Guy Warner . While her husband was serving in World War II , he continued working in the factory, and a co-worker introduced her to the American Black Theatre, where he studied acting , other graduates included Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier . In 1942 , his son Guy Warren , Jr. , was born. [3 ] After the war , Rosa moved to Connecticut individual with her husband and son , but five years later, in the dissolution of their marriage, returned to New York. [3 ] In 1950 , along with John Oliver Killens , Chico Rosa formed a workshop that would become the Harlem Writers Guild ( GTH ) , whose aim was to " develop and assist in the publication of works by writers of the African Diaspora " . [4 ] Its members and participants included Willard Moore, Walter Christmas, Maya Angelou , Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Paule Marshall , Audre Lorde , Alice Childress, Ossie Davis , Ruby Dee , and Douglas Turner room . More than half of all successful African-American writers
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