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Marlon James

Born

in Kingston, Jamaica

November 24, 1970

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Marlon James is a Jamaican-born writer. He has published three novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009) and A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Now living in Minneapolis, James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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. Henry) became a detective and his father (from whom James took a love of Shakespeare and Coleridge) a lawyer. James is a 1991 graduate of the University of the West Indies, where he read Language and Literature. He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes Unive ...more

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Interview with Maud Newton

Many of your reviews have emphasized the brutality and deprivation of the characters’ lives, and rightly so, but what is even more extraordinary about The Book of Night Women, to me at least, is the tormented romance that drives the last third of the story. Two characters fall into a twisted and passionate affair that sometimes seems like love, but never really can be. The relationship is at least Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.85 · 99,260 ratings · 16,158 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating — 39,504 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 31,579 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Night Women 4.37 avg rating — 15,627 ratings — published 2009 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moon Witch, Spider King (The Dark Star Trilogy #2) 4.16 avg rating — 5,488 ratings — published 2022 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Crow's Devil 3.72 avg rating — 2,253 ratings — published 2005 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Disappearers 4.34 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collection Set: A Brief History of Seven Killings / The Book of Night Women / John Crow's Devil 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Wing, Dark Star (The Dark Star Trilogy, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collection Set: Black Leopard, Red Wolf / Moon Witch, Spider King 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Day I Will Write About My Mother 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Dark Star Trilogy (3 books)
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Poll for June's group read. Which would you like to read. This poll will on remain open until 5/14. Just to give people enough time to purchase/borrow the book in order to start reading on June 1.

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

11 votes 26.2%

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

7 votes 16.7%

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

7 votes 16.7%

Augustown by Kei Miller

7 votes 16.7%

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

5 votes 11.9%

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

3 votes 7.1%

Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique

2 votes 4.8%

42 total votes

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