Marlon James graduated from the University of West Indies with a degree in Language and Literature, and from Wilkes University in 2006 with a Masters in creative writing. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely including in Esquire, Granta, and The Caribbean Review of Books. He is also the author of The Book of Night Women and John Crow's Devil. His third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, was the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, and named a best book of the year by various outlets such as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, amongst many others.
"[Marlon James] is a virtuoso ...[the novel is] an epic of
postcolonial fallout, in Jamaica and elsewhere, and America's
participation in that history. ...the book is not only persuasive
but tragic, though in its polyphony and scope it's more than
that....It makes its own kind of music, not like Marley's, but like
the tumult he couldn't stop." --New York Times Book Review, on the
English-language edition
"Nothing short of awe-inspiring."--Entertainment Weekly, on the
English-language edition
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