Rachel Manley, Toronto, Jamaica

2001

Non-fiction writer Rachel Manley, a Jamaican born in Cornwall England, grew up in Jamaica; graduated from the University of the West Indies. Teacher, poet and writer. Now lives in between Toronto and Jamaica and is working on the third book of a trilogy which includes Drumblair and Slipstream.

She is granddaughter and daughter of two of Jamaica's national leaders, tells the story of the brilliant, artistic Manleys Jamaica's most prominent and glamorous political family who provided Jamaica's first crop of political leaders on both ends of the political spectrum. She vividly creates an intimate memoir of the people who changed Jamaica's intellectual, social and cultural landscape for all time.

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Awards

• Winner 1997 - Governor General's Literary Award for Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood.
• Jamaican Centennial Medal for Poetry, 1979.

Selected Books

• Slipstream, Vintage Canada, 2001
• Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers, Knopf Canada, 2000
• Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, Vintage Canada, 1997.
• Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, Knopf Canada, 1996
• A Light Left On. Yorkshire, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 1992.
• Edna Manley: The Diaries. (Editor.) London, UK: Andre Deutsch, 1989.
• Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers, Knopf Canada, 2000, ISBN 0676972799