London: Author of books like 'Small Island' and 'The Long Song', Andrea Levy died from cancer at the age of 62. Andrea Levy was born in London in 1956.
She is known for writing about Windrush generation, the wave of Caribbean migrants that came to Britain after World War II. Her fourth novel 'Small Island' which told the story of Jamaican migrants in Britain made Levy very famous. It won the Whitbread prize, the Orange prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writer's prize.
Ley hadn't started writing until her mid-30s after which she had attented a creative writing course. Ley is also considered as the first black British author to achieve both critical as well as mainstream commercial success.