William Alexander Stephenson

William Alexander Stephenson (14 July 1873 – 1926) was a prominent Jamaican journalist who emigrated to New York where he became involved in the Harlem Renaissance.[1]

He attended Half Way Tree Middle Grade School, where the headmaster, H H Isaacs, suggested he become a journalist.[1] After working for Gall’s News Letter, and The Telegraph he was taken on by the Daily Gleaner.[1] His articles were generally attributed to W. A. Stephenson. He also wrote for the Jamaica Times. In 1913 he left journalism to become Chief Sanitary Officer.[1]

Following the First World War he and his wife, emigrated to New York, where he returned to journalism. He published the West Indian Informer himself and went on to write for Negro World and was Managing Editor of the Daily Negro Times.[2]

References
  1. "The Stephensons". Jamaica's forgotten journalists. Jamaica History. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. Martin, Tony (1991). African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance. Dover Massachusetts: The Majority Press. ISBN 9780912469096.
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