Roger Mais was born on August 11, 1905 in Kingston Jamaica. He was born to a middle class family in Kingston. He was a journalist, novelist, poet and playwright. Mais began as a journalist and supplier of short stories, plays, and reviews for the political / cultural journal Public Opinion which was linked to the People’s National Party from 1939 to 1952.He also wrote several plays, reviews and short stories for the Newspaper Focus and the Jamaica Daily Gleaner concentrating mainly on his articles on social injustice and inequality. His fundamental role in the maturity of the political and cultural nationalism is evidence in his being awarded the high honor of the order of Jamaica in 1978. Mais also won ten first prizes in West Indian Literary competitions.Mais left for England in 1952; he travelled to Europe-London, Paris, and the South of France, just simply to fulfill himself. Roger Mais often incorporated a romantic idea into his writings which he drew from his western education inspirations that lead to his use of tragic, visionary and poetic elements within books and plays. Roger Mais was a dynamic and inspirational writer sadly Mais returned to Jamaica in 1955 after falling ill with cancer he died the same year at age 50.
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