The New York Times is reporting this evening that E.R. (Edward Ricardo) Braithwaite, the Guyanese author, educator and diplomat whose years teaching in London’s East End inspired the international best-seller “To Sir, With Love” and the popular Sidney Poitier movie of the same name, has died at age 104.
Braithwaite’s companion, Ginette Ast, confirmed the news, saying that he became sick on Monday and died at the Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Maryland.
Braithwaite’s 1959 novel, “To Sir With Love” (his first and most famous book) was adapted for the screen in 1967 and starred Sidney Poitier in a post-war London tale of social and racial strife in an inner-city school.
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Learn more about E.R. in his own words and check out Sidney Poitier’s portrayal of Braithwaite in ‘To Sir With Love’ below:
Source: Shadow and Act
