![]() His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely including in Esquire, Granta, and The Caribbean Review of Books. James graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1991 with a degree in Language And Literature, and from Wilkes University in 2006 with a Masters in creative writing. Marlon James is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling, National Book Award-finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: He has a nose, people say. ![]() In his third novel, A Brief History Of Seven Killings, James is exploring multiple genres: the political thriller, the oral biography, and the classic whodunit to confront the untold history of Jamaica in the late 1970’s of the assassination attempt on Bob Marley, and the country’s own clandestine battles of the cold war. In the stunning first novel in Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. His first novel John Crow’s Devil was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Titled The Dark Star Trilogy, the three novels ( Black Leopard, Red Wolf Moon Witch, Night Devil The Boy and the Dark Star) follow three characters the Tracker, the Moon Witch, and. He is the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction as well as an NAACP Image Award. Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. ![]()
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