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词条 Colin Grant (author)
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  1. Biography

  2. Books

  3. References

  4. External links

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| birth_date = 1961
| birth_place = Hitchin, UK
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| nationality = English
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| occupation = Writer
| notable works = Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa
| website = {{url|http://www.colingrant.info/colin-grant/4531483161}}
}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2012}}{{Use British English|date=March 2012}}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]

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. 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, Jonathan Cape, 2017[8]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/staff/assoiatefellows/|title=Associate Fellows|website=www2.warwick.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=28 October 2017}}
2. ^Official website.
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/930824897|title=Smell of burning|first=Colin|last=Grant|date=2016|publisher=Jonathan Cape Ltd|isbn=9780224101820|location=[Place of publication not identified]|oclc=930824897}}
4. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781997714|title=Bageye at the Wheel|last=Grant|first=Colin|date=2012|publisher=Jonathan Cape|isbn=9780224091053|location=London|oclc=781997714}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/2011/03/10/colin-grant-%E2%80%9Cnegro-with-a-hat-the-rise-and-fall-of-marcus-garvey%E2%80%9D-oxford-up-2008/|title=Colin Grant, "Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey"|date=29 January 2013|work=New Books in African American Studies|access-date=28 October 2017|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20130129200708/http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/2011/03/10/colin-grant-%E2%80%9Cnegro-with-a-hat-the-rise-and-fall-of-marcus-garvey%E2%80%9D-oxford-up-2008/|archivedate=29 January 2013|df=dmy-all}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/25/bageye-at-the-wheel-review|title=Bageye at the Wheel by Colin Grant – review|last=Sandhu|first=Sukhdev|date=25 May 2012|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 October 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9257935/A-Page-in-the-Life-Colin-Grant.html|title=A Page in the Life: Colin Grant|last=Sharp|first=Rob|date=11 May 2012|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=28 October 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/my-brother-died-from-epilepsy-i-wish-he-and-i-had-understood-the/|title=My brother died from epilepsy. I wish he and I had understood the dangers|last=Grant|first=Colin|date=1 June 2017|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=28 October 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}

External links

  • {{Official website|http://colingrant.info/}}
  • Rob Sharp, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9257935/A-Page-in-the-Life-Colin-Grant.html "A Page in the Life: Colin Grant"], The Telegraph, 11 May 2012.
  • [https://archive.is/20130129200708/http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/2011/03/10/colin-grant-%E2%80%9Cnegro-with-a-hat-the-rise-and-fall-of-marcus-garvey%E2%80%9D-oxford-up-2008/ Interview] with Colin Grant on "New Books in African American Studies".
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10 : Jamaican non-fiction writers|Black British writers|Jamaican dramatists and playwrights|Jamaican male writers|Male dramatists and playwrights|1961 births|Living people|English people of Jamaican descent|People from Hitchin|People educated at St Columba's College, St Albans

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