Colin Grant (author)
Colin Grant | |
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| 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[1] and a BBC radio producer.[2] He grew up on a council estate in Luton, had a brother Christopher[3] and attended St Columba's College, St Albans[4].
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[5], London: Jonathan Cape, 2008; Oxford University Press, United States, 2008
- I & I - The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer[6], London: Jonathan Cape, 2011; New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
- Bageye at the Wheel[7], London: Jonathan Cape, 2012
- A Smell of Burning: The Story of Epilepsy[8]
References
- ^ "Associate Fellows". www2.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ Official website.
- ^ Colin., Grant, (2016). Smell of burning. [Place of publication not identified]: Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 9780224101820. OCLC 930824897.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 1961-, Grant, Colin, (2012). Bageye at the wheel. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224091053. OCLC 781997714.
{{cite book}}:|last=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Colin Grant, "Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey" (…". New Books in African American Studies. 29 January 2013. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Sandhu, Sukhdev (25 May 2012). "Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ Sharp, Rob (11 May 2012). "A Page in the Life: Colin Grant". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Grant, Colin (1 June 2017). "My brother died from epilepsy. I wish he and I had understood the dangers". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
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".
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