Rachel Manley, Date of Birth

    

Rachel Manley

Jamaican writer

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1947

Profession: historian, memoirist

Nationality: Jamaica

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Rachel Manley

  • Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England, 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.
  • She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood.
  • 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).She published her debut novel, The Black Peacock, in 2017.
  • The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award.

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