Rachel Manley

Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England,[1] raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She was briefly married to George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, father of film director Matthew Vaughn. She edited Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989.[2] She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood.[3][4] 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).[5]

She published her debut novel, The Black Peacock, in 2017.[6] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[7]

Footnotes
  1. "Biography from rachelmanley.com". Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  2. Edna Manley: the Diaries, edited by Rachel Manley. London: André Deutsch, 1989, ISBN 0-233-98427-5.
  3. Anthony Boxill, "A Well-Managed Narrative" (review of Drumblair) Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Literature #164 (Spring 2000), (Atwood, Davis, Klein & Multiculturalism), pp. 162-164. Canadian Literature, 8 December 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  4. Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, Kingston: Ian Randle, 1996. ISBN 976-8100-98-2.
  5. Author page at Amazon.
  6. "Reviews: The Black Peacock, by Rachel Manley". Quill & Quire, December 2017.
  7. "Sharon Bala, Omar El Akkad among finalists for $40K Amazon.ca First Novel Award". CBC Books, April 28, 2018.


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