On January 30, 1923, Jamaican-Panamanian novelist, poet, and journalist Felix Andrew Alexander Salkey, known as Andrew Salkey, was born in Colón, Panama. Salkey was raised in Jamaica and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to attend the university. His father Andrew Alexander Salkey was a businessman. Salkey attended St. George’s College in Kingston and Munro College in St. Elizabeth before moving to the UK to attend the College of St. Mark and St. John. The Andrew Salkey Memorial Scholarship was established at Hampshire College to recognize students who show talent and promise as authors.