Rachel Manley (born 1955)[1] is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England,[2] raised in Jamaica and currently (as of August 2020) residing in Canada.
She was briefly married to George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, father of the film director Matthew Vaughn.
[citation needed] She edited her grandmother Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989.
[4] She won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1996).
Her other biographical works include Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story (2008), In My Father's Shade (2004) and Slipstream (2000).