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Grant is a radio producer in the [[BBC]] Science Unit. His radio career started in 1989 as a script editor and producer of arts programmes on [[BBC World Service]]. He has written and produced countless plays including ''The Clinic'', based on the lives of the photojournalists, [[Tim Page]] and [[Don McCullin]]. |
Grant is a radio producer in the [[BBC]] Science Unit. His radio career started in 1989 as a script editor and producer of arts programmes on [[BBC World Service]]. He has written and produced countless plays including ''The Clinic'', based on the lives of the photojournalists, [[Tim Page]] and [[Don McCullin]]. |
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Colin Grant lives in [[Brighton]], [[UK]], with Jo Alderson and their three children. |
Colin Grant lives in [[Brighton]], [[UK]], with Jo Alderson and their three children, Jasmine, Maya and Toby. |
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==Book Reviews & Blogs== |
==Book Reviews & Blogs== |
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Revision as of 16:11, 22 March 2008
Colin Grant (born 1961 Hitchin, UK) of Jamaican origin, is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa, (Jonathan Cape, 2008; Oxford University Press, USA , 2008).
Grant is a radio producer in the BBC Science Unit. His radio career started in 1989 as a script editor and producer of arts programmes on BBC World Service. He has written and produced countless plays including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photojournalists, Tim Page and Don McCullin.
Colin Grant lives in Brighton, UK, with Jo Alderson and their three children, Jasmine, Maya and Toby.
Book Reviews & Blogs
- The Napoleon-messiah of black liberation, The Telegraph
- Saint or charlatan?, New Statesman
- A radical enigma, The Guardian
- Negro With a Hat: The rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, The Independent
- Take your hat off to him, The Financial Times
- The rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, The Telegraph
- Negro with a Hat - definitive biography, (Starred Review) Publishers Weekly
- Negro With A Hat, Metro UK
- Hats off to a Hero,(interview) The Voice UK
- New book reappraises Marcus Garvey, The Jamaica Observer
- The black Moses and his debt to Dev, The Irish Times
- Revered, reviled, then revered again, The Observer'
- Is Obama Channeling Garvey, History News Network
- Invisible Man: Garvey or Obama, Oxford University Press USA blog
- Du Bois and Garvey Meet: No Blood Is Shed!, Oxford University Press USA blog
- The Book Guys (radio interview & HNN)
External Links
- Oxford University Press USA
- Jonathan Cape
- Tibor Jones & Associates, Literary Agency, London, UK]