Spotlight on Caribbean Writers

June is a month of celebrations so we didn’t want to forget spotlighting some of our favorite authors for Caribbean Heritage Month. Add these authors to your reading list this month!

Author Spotlight on Marlon James

This notable author was born in Jamaica in 1970. James has won numerous awards including a Man Booker Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and NAACP Image Award. Currently Marlon James lives in  Minnesota and New York.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
eBook

A Brief History Of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
eBook
John Crow’s Devil
by Marlon James
eBook

Author Spotlight on Nicole Dennis-Benn

Dennis-Benn was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Her writing has received critical acclaim including winning two Lambda Literary Awards. Dennis-Benn is the founder of the Stuyvesant Writing Workshop and lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York.

Here Comes The Sun
by Nicole Dennis-Benn
eBook
Patsy
by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Book

Here are some more books you will enjoy this Caribbean Heritage Month.

How To Love A Jamaican
by Alexia Arthurs
eBook
Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
eBook
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
by Maika and Maritza Moulite eBook