Colin Grant (author)
Colin Grant | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Hitchin, England, UK |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Notable work | Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa (2008); Bageye at the Wheel (2012) |
| Website | www |
Colin Grant (born 1961, Hitchin, England) 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]
Biography
Grant 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. In 2009, a two-part documentary about Caribbean Voices (1943–1958) was produced by Grant.[5] 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.
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,[6] London: Jonathan Cape, 2008; Oxford University Press, United States, 2008
- I & I – The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer,[7] London: Jonathan Cape, 2011; New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
- Bageye at the Wheel,[8] London: Jonathan Cape, 2012
- A Smell of Burning: The Story of Epilepsy, Jonathan Cape, 2017[9]
References
- ^ "Associate Fellows". www2.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ^ Official website.
- ^ Grant, Colin (2016). Smell of burning. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 9780224101820. OCLC 930824897.
- ^ Grant, Colin (2012). Bageye at the Wheel. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224091053. OCLC 781997714.
- ^ "Caribbean Voices", BBC World Service, 21 July 2009 (archived page).
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Grant, Colin (1 June 2017). "My brother died from epilepsy. I wish he and I had understood the dangers". The Daily 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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