Colin Grant (author)
| Colin Grant | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1961 Hitchin, UK |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Writer |
Colin Grant (born 1961, Hitchin, UK) of Jamaican origin, is an author of books such as Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa. He is also a historian, Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies and a BBC radio producer.[1] He attended St Columba's College, St Albans.
Grant joined the BBC in 1991, and has worked as a TV script editor and radio producer of arts and science programmes on Radio 4 and on the World Service. He has written and directed plays, including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photojournalists Tim Page and Don McCullin. Among several radio drama-documentaries he has written and produced are African Man of Letters: The Life of Ignatius Sancho, A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca, and Move Over Charlie Brown: The Rise of Boondocks. Grant is represented by Tibor Jones & Associates, Literary Agency, London, UK.
He lives in Brighton, UK, with Jo Alderson and their three children, Jasmine, Maya and Toby.
Books
- Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa, London: Jonathan Cape, 2008; Oxford University Press, United States, 2008
- I & I - The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer, London: Jonathan Cape, 2011; New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
- Bageye at the Wheel, London: Jonathan Cape, 2012
References
External links
- Official website
- Rob Sharp, "A Page in the Life: Colin Grant", The Telegraph, 11 May 2012.
- Interview with Colin Grant on "New Books in African American Studies".