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. 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

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".