Marlon James

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel is A Brief History of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. He is also the author of The Book of Night Women and John Crow’s Devil. He lives in Minneapolis.