Get to Know Novelist Marlon James: Jamaica’s First Man Booker Prize Winner and Creator of ‘Get Millie Black’

Marlon James, born on 24 November 1970 in Kingston, Jamaica, has become one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary literature. Raised in the vibrant and complex tapestry of Jamaican culture, James was deeply influenced by the oral storytelling traditions that surrounded him. His parents, both in academia—his mother a police detective and his father […]