Marlon James is the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow's Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely, in Esquire, Granta, and elsewhere. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he lives in Jamaica and teaches at Macalester College. His forthcoming novel A Brief History of Seven Killings will be published by Riverhead Books in October 2014.