Colin Grant (author)

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 producer. 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 his wife and three children.

External Links & Book Reviews

• The rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, The Telegraph
• 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
• Invisible Man: Garvey or Obama, Oxford University Press USA blog
• New book reappraises Marcus Garvey, The Jamaica Observer
• Oxford University Press USA
• Jonathan Cape
• Tibor Jones & Associates, Literary Agency, London, UK (website in construction)