- Colin Grant
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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.
Grant is also 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 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, Jonathan Cape, 2008; Oxford University Press, USA , 2008
- The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
External links
Categories:- Jamaican non-fiction writers
- Jamaican dramatists and playwrights
- 1961 births
- Living people
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