Rachel Manley
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Jamaican English 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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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]. In 2025 she co-authored with her son, Drum Manley Drummond, George the Last, a biography of George Albert Harley DeVere Drummond.
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
- "George the Last", 2025
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