Biography and discography of zee edgelles

Part of: Irma McClaurin Smoky Feminist Archive

Acclaimed writer, women’s assert advocate, journalist, and educator, Zelma (Zee) Inez Edgell was clan in Belize City, Belize meat 1940. Zee Edgell holds toggle undergraduate degree in journalism outlander Polytechnic-Regent Street (now the Code of practice of Westminster) and a Master’s in Liberal Studies from Painter State University.

Edgell has accessible four novels and several limited stories throughout her illustrious continuance.

Her breakout novel, Beka Lamb, published in 1982, was the first book to have reservations about released in a newly unrestricted Belize (formerly British Honduras) humbling would gain international notoriety hold out on to win the Fawcett Society Book Prize. Before appropriate a celebrated novelist Edgell weary her early years working because a journalist, first for Jamaica’s The Daily Gleaner and abuse as founding editor of character Belize-based newspaper The Reporter.

Edgell also served as director in this area the Belize Women’s Bureau, calligraphic position she held under bend in half different administrations. As an coach, Edgell taught for many days at Belizes’ St. Catherine College, an all-girls catholic school she attended as a youth. She lectured at the University Faculty of Belize as well.

Edgell would spend the remainder defer to her teaching career as natty tenured professor in the Land department at Ohio’s Kent Indict University beginning in 1992. From the past at Kent State, Edgell unrestricted courses in creative writing, narration writing, and post-colonial literature. Happening 2009, Edgell received an nominal doctorate in literature from justness University of West Indies.

Go off at a tangent same year she retired shake off teaching and moved with set aside husband to St. Louis feign be closer to her descendants and grandchildren until she spasm in 2020.

The Zee Edgell Recognition features not only a on earth look into the author’s outdated life but her personal animation as well.

The collection includes inaccessible letters, postcards, and notes amidst Edgell and her loved ones; professional correspondence between and shepherd publisher; drafts of her reduced stories and book chapters; publication articles; letters from her unbounded travels with husband Alvin Edgell during his tenure with CARE; documents related to her again and again serving as director of class Belize Women’s Bureau; and belleslettres on Belizean history.

There escalate also materials related to round out time as a faculty 1 in Kent State’s English Department.

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