Colin Grant (author)

Colin Grant (born 1961 Hitchin, UK) of Jamaican origin, is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa, (Jonathan Cape, 2008; Oxford University Press, USA , 2008).

Grant is a radio producer in the BBC Science Unit. His radio career started in 1989 as a script editor and producer of arts programmes on BBC World Service. He has written and produced countless plays including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photojournalists, Tim Page and Don McCullin. Grant is represented by Tibor Jones & Associates, Literary Agency, London, UK

He lives in Brighton, UK, with Jo Alderson and their three children, Jasmine, Maya and Toby.

Book Reviews, UK & Ireland

• The Napoleon-messiah of black liberation, The Telegraph
• Saint or charlatan?, New Statesman
• A radical enigma, The Guardian
• Negro With a Hat: The rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, The Independent
• Take your hat off to him, The Financial Times
• The rise and fall of Marcus Garvey, The Telegraph
• Negro With A Hat, Metro UK
• The black Moses and his debt to Dev, The Irish Times
• Revered, reviled, then revered again, The Observer
• The Audacity of Hope, Black History 365

Book Reviews, USA & Caribbean

• Black Star, New York Times
• A 20th-century tragedy worthy of Shakespeare, NJ Star Ledger
• The Life of Marcus Garvey, Dallas Morning News
• The Discovery of Pride, The New Republic
• Justice for Garvey, N'Digo
• Negro with a Hat - definitive biography, (Starred Review) Publishers Weekly
• The New Yorker
• A Polarizing Figure, Chicago Tribune
• Hail to the Chief, Caribbean Review of Books
• New book reappraises Marcus Garvey, The Jamaica Observer
• Father of the Red, Black and Green, Real Change News

Print Interviews, Editorials & Blogs

• Would Marcus Garvey Recognise America Today, The Edmond Sun
• Hats off to a Hero,(interview) The Voice UK
• Patrick Wilmot's Column, The Jamaica Observer
• Is Obama Channeling Garvey, History News Network
• Invisible Man: Garvey or Obama, Oxford University Press USA blog
• Du Bois and Garvey Meet: No Blood Is Shed!, Oxford University Press USA blog

Radio Interviews

• On The Real with Chuck D Air America Radio
• The John Rothman program KGO San Francisco
• WILL-AM
• New Books in History (interview with Marshall Poe)
• The Book Guys (radio interview & HNN)

Readings & Talks

• Demagogue or Messiah LSE
• Mama Africa, Southbank Centre
• George Padmore Institute
• Latitude Festival 2008, Vox 'N' Roll book readings

External links

• Tibor Jones & Associates, Literary Agency, London, UK
• Oxford University Press USA
• Jonathan Cape
• Marcus Garvey on Wikipedia
• Heart of the City