Rachel Manley

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Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She edited Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989.^[1] She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood.^[2]^[3] She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in her Hair, In My Father's Shade, and Slipstream.

Footnotes

↑ Edna Manley: the Diaries; edited by Rachel Manley. London: André Deutsch, 1989 ISBN 0-233-98427-5
↑ Anthony Boxill, "A Well-Managed Narrative" (review of Drumblair), Canadian Literature #164 (Spring 2000), (Atwood, Davis, Klein & Multiculturalism). (pp. 162-164).canlit.ca. Canadian Literature, 8 December 2011. Web. 17 June 2012.
↑ Kingston: Ian Randle, 1996 ISBN 976-8100-98-2

External links

Cassandra Jardine, "'I wish our family had been normal': Rachel Manley, daughter of the former prime minister of Jamaica, tells Cassandra Jardine about living in a politician's slipstream", The Telegraph, 4 October 2004.

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