Marlon James

Biography

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead, 2014), was the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the American Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize for fiction. He is also the author of the novels John Crow’s Devil (Akashic, 2005) and The Book of Night Women (Riverhead, 2009). 

 

See Work

NOTES TO SELF / Spring 2018

Marlon James’s Notes to Self

By Marlon James ,  Photography by Tim Gruber

One big expectation of the murder mystery is that the payoff includes some answers, that eventually we learn the truth. The best payoffs are layered, too, so that the revelations include not just who did the deed but how and why—what the...