Rachel Manley (born 1955)[1] is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England,[2] raised in Jamaica and currently (as of August 2020) residing in Canada.[3] She is a daughter of the former Jamaican prime minister, Michael Manley. She was briefly married to George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, father of the film director Matthew Vaughn.

She edited her grandmother Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989.[4] She won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1996).[5] She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story (2008), In My Father's Shade (2004) and Slipstream (2000).[6]

She published her first novel, The Black Peacock, in 2017.[7] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[8]

Selected bibliography

  • A Light Left On (poetry), 1992
  • Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (memoir), 1996
  • Slipstream , 2000
  • In My Father's Shade, 2004
  • Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story, 2008
  • The Black Peacock (novel), 2017

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Rachel Manley". Peepal Tree Press. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "Biography from rachelmanley.com". Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  3. ↑ Royale-Davis, Gloria (21 July 2022). "Rachel Manley – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women". Jamaicans.com.
  4. ↑ Rachel Manley, ed. (1989). Edna Manley: the Diaries. London: André Deutsch. ISBN 0-233-98427-5..
  5. ↑ Anthony Boxill (Spring 2000). "A Well-Managed Narrative". Canadian Literature (164): 162–164. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
    - Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood. Kingston: Ian Randle. 1996. ISBN 976-8100-98-2.
  6. ↑ Author page at Amazon.
  7. ↑ "Reviews: The Black Peacock, by Rachel Manley". Quill & Quire. December 2017.
  8. ↑ Ryan B. Patrick (26 April 2018). "Sharon Bala, Omar El Akkad among finalists for $40K Amazon.ca First Novel Award". CBC Books.


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