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Colin Grant is a historian and BBC radio producer. He is the author of Negro with a Hat, a biography of Marcus Garvey; I&I: The Natural Mystics, a group biography of the original Wailers, Marley, Tosh and Livingston; and his own memoir, Bageye at the Wheel. The son of Jamaican emigrants, he lives in Brighton.
Engrossing...Writing in a concise, expressive style...drawing on gargantuan research...Grant meticulously chronicles Garvey's eventful odyssey and sheds light on his revolutionary thinking and formidable public speaking...he shows Garvey's heady triumphs and crushing disappointments, his complexity, his paradoxes * Independent on Sunday * In this superb new biography, Colin Grant portrays Garvey as a showman-ideologue [and] is to be congratulated on this scholarly, well-written account * Sunday Telegraph * Grant is an accomplished storyteller and writes with an elegance leavened by wit and cynicism that makes this book eminently readable -- Margaret Busby * Guardian * Gripping and sympathetic...monumental...Grant writes with the quiet authority of a historian who has done a colossal amount of research... and knows the smells and tastes of this period as if he had lived through it. He is slow to pass judgement, but when he does so, the verdict carries real weight... His history reads like a first-rate novel... Grant's book is a fine and valuable monument to [Garvey's] memory -- Kevin Jackson * New Statesman * A brisk and well-researched biography... A splendidly colourful book * Daily Telegraph *
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