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]
Selected bibliography
A Light Left On (poetry), 1992
Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (memoir), 1996
↑ Rachel Manley, ed. (1989). Edna Manley: the Diaries. London: André Deutsch. ISBN0-233-98427-5..
↑ 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. ISBN976-8100-98-2.
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