Rachel Manley

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.[citation needed]

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]

  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.