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 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]
Footnotes
- ↑ "Biography from rachelmanley.com". Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ↑ Edna Manley: the Diaries, edited by Rachel Manley. London: André Deutsch, 1989, ISBN 0-233-98427-5.
- ↑ Anthony Boxill, "A Well-Managed Narrative" (review of Drumblair), Canadian Literature #164 (Spring 2000), (Atwood, Davis, Klein & Multiculturalism), pp. 162-164. Canadian Literature, 8 December 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
- ↑ Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, Kingston: Ian Randle, 1996. ISBN 976-8100-98-2.
- ↑ Author page at Amazon.
External links
- Cassandra Jardine, "'I wish our family had been normal': Rachel Manley, daughter of the former prime minister of Jamaica, tells Cassandra Jardine about living in a politician's slipstream", Telegraph, 4 October 2004.
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