Guyanese educator, author and diplomat ER Braithwaite who authored the bestseller To Sir, With Love died at age 104.
Ginette Ast, his companion, said he fell ill on 17th Dec 2016 and passed away following this.
Schooled at Guyana, UK and the US, he wrote several fiction and non-fiction books focusing on racism and class and the contrast between First World and colonial cultures.
He was also regarded as a chronicler of the British from a Guyanese perspective.
He influenced authors such as Caryl Philips and Hanif Kureishi.
Guyana President David Granger paid a tribute to Braithwaite.
To Sir, With Love was his first, and most famous book. Published in 1959, it was an autobiographical tale of how a West Indian teacher inspired a white, rowdy class of East End teens. This book was also made into a famous movie.
