Colin Grant (author)

Colin Grant (born 1961, Hitchin, England) of Jamaican origin, is an author of books such as "Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa". He is also a historian, Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies and a BBC radio producer.
Biography.
Grant grew up on a council estate in Luton, had a brother Christopher and attended St Columba's College, St Albans.
Grant joined the BBC in 1991, and has worked as a TV script editor and radio producer of arts and science programmes on Radio 4 and on the World Service. In 2009, a two-part documentary about "Caribbean Voices" (1943–1958) was produced by Grant. He has written and directed plays, including "The Clinic", based on the lives of the photojournalists Tim Page and Don McCullin. Among several radio drama-documentaries he has written and produced are "African Man of Letters: The Life of Ignatius Sancho", "A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca", and "Move Over Charlie Brown: The Rise of Boondocks".
He lives in Brighton, UK, with Jo Alderson and their three children, Jasmine, Maya and Toby.