Marlon James

Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist, born in 1970.

His early novels John Crow's Devil and The Book of Night Women were followed by A Brief History of Seven Killings, which circles the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley and its aftermath through more than seventy voices; it won the 2015 Booker Prize, making James the first Jamaican-born author to take the award.

He then turned to fantasy with the Dark Star trilogy, beginning with Black Leopard, Red Wolf and continuing in Moon Witch, Spider King, drawing on African history and mythology and retelling the same events from conflicting perspectives. He also created the television series Get Millie Black. James lives in Minneapolis and teaches literature at Macalester College.