Rachel Manley (born 1955) is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England, raised in Jamaica and currently (as of August 2020) residing in Canada. She is a daughter of the former Jamaican prime minister, Michael Manley. She was briefly married to George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, father of the film director Matthew Vaughn. She edited her grandmother Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989. She won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1996). She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story (2008), In My Father's Shade (2004) and Slipstream (2000). She published her first novel, The Black Peacock, in 2017. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Selected bibliography A Light Left On (poetry), 1992 Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (memoir), 1996 Slipstream , 2000 In My Father's Shade, 2004 Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story, 2008 The Black Peacock (novel), 2017 Footnotes 1955 births 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers British emigrants to Jamaica Canadian memoirists Canadian women memoirists Canadian women novelists Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers Jamaican emigrants to Canada Jamaican non-fiction writers Jamaican women writers Living people Rachel