Colin Grant (author)

Colin Grant
Colin Grant
Born	1961 (age 59–60); Hitchin, England, UK
Nationality	English
Occupation	Writer
Notable work	Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa (2008); Bageye at the Wheel (2012)
Website	www.colingrant.info/colin-grant/4531483161

Colin Grant (born 1961, Hitchin, England) of Jamaican origin, is an author of books such as Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa. He is also a historian, Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies[1] and a BBC radio producer.[2]

Biography

Grant grew up on a council estate in Luton, had a brother Christopher[3] and attended St Columba's College, St Albans.[4]

Grant joined the BBC in 1991, and has worked as a TV script editor and radio producer of arts and science programmes on Radio 4 and on the World Service. In 2009, a two-part documentary about Caribbean Voices (1943–1958) was produced by Grant.[5] He has written and directed plays, including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photojournalists Tim Page and Don McCullin. Among several radio drama-documentaries he has written and produced are African Man of Letters: The Life of Ignatius Sancho, A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca, and Move Over Charlie Brown: The Rise of Boondocks.

He lives in Brighton, UK, with Jo Alderson and their three children, Jasmine, Maya and Toby.

Books

Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa,[6] London: Jonathan Cape, 2008; Oxford University Press, United States, 2008
I & I – The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer,[7] London: Jonathan Cape, 2011; New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
Bageye at the Wheel,[8] London: Jonathan Cape, 2012
A Smell of Burning: The Story of Epilepsy, Jonathan Cape, 2017[9]

References

"Associate Fellows". www2.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
Official website.
Grant, Colin (2016). Smell of burning. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 9780224101820. OCLC 930824897.
Grant, Colin (2012). Bageye at the Wheel. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224091053. OCLC 781997714.
"Caribbean Voices", BBC World Service, 21 July 2009 (archived page).
"Colin Grant, "Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey"". New Books in African American Studies. 29 January 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
Sandhu, Sukhdev (25 May 2012). "Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
Sharp, Rob (11 May 2012). "A Page in the Life: Colin Grant". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
Grant, Colin (1 June 2017). "My brother died from epilepsy. I wish he and I had understood the dangers". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 28 October 2017.

External links

Official website
Rob Sharp, "A Page in the Life: Colin Grant", The Telegraph, 11 May 2012.
Interview with Colin Grant on "New Books in African American Studies".

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[1] "Associate Fellows". www2.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2017.

[2] Official website.

[3] Grant, Colin (2016). Smell of burning. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 9780224101820. OCLC 930824897.

[4] Grant, Colin (2012). Bageye at the Wheel. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224091053. OCLC 781997714.

[5] "Caribbean Voices", BBC World Service, 21 July 2009 (archived page).

[6] "Colin Grant, "Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey"". New Books in African American Studies. 29 January 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2017.

[7] Sandhu, Sukhdev (25 May 2012). "Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 October 2017.

[8] Sharp, Rob (11 May 2012). "A Page in the Life: Colin Grant". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 28 October 2017.

[9] Grant, Colin (1 June 2017). "My brother died from epilepsy. I wish he and I had understood the dangers". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 28 October 2017.