Rachel Manley

Rachel Manley (born 1955)^[1] is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England,^[2] raised in Jamaica and currently (as of August 2020) residing in Canada.^[3] She is a daughter of the former Jamaican prime minister, Michael Manley. She was briefly married to George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, father of the film director Matthew Vaughn.^{[citation needed]}

She edited her grandmother Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989.^[4] She won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1996).^[5] She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story (2008), In My Father's Shade (2004) and Slipstream (2000).^[6]

She published her first novel, The Black Peacock, in 2017.^[7] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.^[8]

Selected bibliography

• A Light Left On (poetry), 1992
• Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (memoir), 1996
• Slipstream , 2000
• In My Father's Shade, 2004
• Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story, 2008
• The Black Peacock (novel), 2017