|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
Writers & Readers: Marlon James
part of Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art.
6:30 PM reception, 7 PM reading
$5/FREE for Real Art Ways members
Sunday, Feb. 28, at Labyrinth Books, New Haven:
4 PM
contact Labyrinth Books for admission information: 203.787.2848
[listen to Marlon James on WNYC's Studio 360]
"Writing in the spirit of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker but in a style all his own, James has conducted an experiment in how to write the unspeakable — even the unthinkable. And the results of that experiment are an undeniable success."
- Kaiama L. Glover, The New York Times Book Review
Marlon James is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction (winner announced March 11, 2010) and a nominee for the NAACP's Image Award in Literature (winner announced Feb. 26, 2010).
Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. He graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1991 with a degree in literature. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was short listed for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.