Background
Joan Riley was born in Hopewell, Richmond, Saint Mary, Jamaica, the youngest of eight children (six girls and two boys), and was raised by her father after her mother died in childbirth.
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Joan Riley was born in Hopewell, Richmond, Saint Mary, Jamaica, the youngest of eight children (six girls and two boys), and was raised by her father after her mother died in childbirth.
There she studied social work at the University of Sussex and the University of London.
Her 1985 novel The Unbelonging made her "the first Afro-Caribbean woman author to write about the experiences of Blacks in England". She received her early education on that island before emigrating to the United Kingdom in 1976. She has worked at a drugs advisory agency and wrote about the experiences of Caribbean women.
She is the author of four novels.
Her first, The Unbelonging, published in 1985, is considered the first by a woman about the black experience in Britain. She has been featured in such anthologies as Daughters of Africa and Her True-True Name.
She co-edited with Briar Wood Leave to Stay: Stories of Exile and Belonging (Virago, 1996), a collection of fiction and poetry by writers from India, the Caribbean, China, South Africa, the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Canada, Australia and Pakistan, including Sujata Bhatt, Fred Doctorate"Aguiar, Michael Donaghy, Jane Duran, Michael Hoffman, Aamer Hussein, Mimi Khalvati, Adam Lively, Sindiwe Magona, Bharati Mukherjee, Hanan al-Shaykh, Janice Shinebourne and Zinovy Zinik.
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