During this time Guy had been working at a factory in the garment district and had studied acting at the American Negro Theater. The marriage ended in divorce several years later. She married Warner Guy in 1941, and the couple had a son, Warner Jr., in 1942 (he died in 1995). Guy had a frequently difficult childhood in New York City, losing both parents by the age of 14. They were reunited with their parents who had made the move ahead of them. Guy was born in Trinidad in the early 1920s (a New York Times report lists the year as 1922, though several biographical resources give the date as 1925) and immigrated to the United States with her sister when she was seven years old. In addition to her canon of books for young people, Guy also penned works for adults, including her first book Bird at My Window (Lippincott, 1966) and the novel My Love, My Love: or, The Peasant Girl (Holt 1985), which was a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Little Mermaid with a Caribbean setting and was adapted as a Broadway musical- Once on This Island-that opened in 1990.
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