Edgar Mittelholzer (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Edgar Mittelholzer (MIHT-uhl-hohltz-ur) was born in New Amsterdam, Guyana (it was then British Guiana), in 1909 to William Austin Mittelholzer and his wife, Rosamond Mabel Leblanc. He later liked to stress his cosmopolitan origins as “an offshot of a Swiss-German plantation manager of the eighteenth century as well as of a Frenchman from Martinique and an Englishman from Lancashire—all in collaboration with a few of the African slaves.” Though he had a fair complexion and straight hair, his father regarded him as “a swarthy baby.” This parental disdain is elaborated in...
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