Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, raised in Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

 and currently residing in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley

Michael Manley

Michael Norman Manley ON OCC was the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica . Manley was a democratic socialist....

. She edited Edna Manley

Edna Manley

Edna Manley OM was a sculptor and contributor to Jamaican culture, as well as the wife of Norman Manley, the founder of the Jamaican People's National Party. She is often considered the "mother of Jamaican art". She is the daughter of English cleric Harvey Swithenbank and a Jamaican woman by the...

's diaries which were published in 1989. She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction

Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction

This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.-1930s:*1936: T. B. Robertson, collected newspaper articles*1937: Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West*1938: John Murray Gibbon, Canadian Mosaic...

in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: memories of a Jamaican childhood. She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in her Hair, In my Father's Shade, and Slipstream.

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