Rachel Manley
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Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall[clarification needed], raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She edited Edna Manley's diaries which were published in 1989.[1] She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: memories of a Jamaican childhood.[2] She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in her Hair, In my Father's Shade, and Slipstream.
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- ^ Edna Manley: the Diaries; edited by Rachel Manley. London: André Deutsch, 1989 ISBN 0233984275
- ^ Kingston: Ian Randle, 1996 ISBN 9768100982
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