![]() He left Jamaica to escape anti-gay violence and economic conditions that he felt would mean career stagnation, later explaining: "Whether it was in a plane or a coffin, I knew I had to get out of Jamaica." He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania (2006). He is a 1991 graduate of the University of the West Indies, where he read Language and Literature. James attended Kingston's prestigious Wolmer's Trust High School for Boys. ![]() Henry) became a detective and his father (from whom James took a love of Shakespeare and Coleridge) a lawyer. James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were both in the Jamaican police: his mother (who gave him his first prose book, a collection of stories by O. Francis College's Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the U.S., James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. He is the author of five novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009), A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which won him the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019), and Moon Witch, Spider King (2022). ![]() Marlon James (born 24 November 1970 ) is a Jamaican writer.
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