Rachel Manley

Rachel Manley was born in Cornwall, England. She grew up in Jamaica, attending the University of the West Indies. She now lives between Toronto and Jamaica, where she teaches when she is not writing.

Rachel Manley is the daughter of Michael Manley, Jamaica’s three-term prime minister.

List of Published Works

• Slipstream: a daughter remembers. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
• Drumblair: memories of a Jamaican childhood. Toronto: Vintage, 1997.
• A Light Left On. Leeds: Peepal Tree, 1992.

• Awards
• Governor General’s Award for Literature Non-Fiction in 1997 for Drumblair: memories of a Jamaican Childhood.
• Jamaican Centennial Medal for Poetry in 1979.