Jean Constance D'Costa (born 13 January 1937) is a Jamaican children's novelist, linguist, and professor emeritus. Her novels for children aged 11 to 13 have been praised for their use of both Jamaican Creole and Standard English.Born Jean Creary in St. Andrew, Jamaica, she was the youngest of three children born to parents who were both teachers. They moved to the capital, Kingston in 1944. Her father was also a Methodist minister. Her family lived for various lengths of time in St. James and Trelawny. She attended elementary school in rural Jamaica and then St. Hilda's High School in Brown's Town from 1949 to 1954, courtesy of a government scholarship. Wikipedia
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