Marlon James graduated from the University of West Indies with a degree in Language and Literature, and from Wilkes University in 2006 with a Masters in creative writing. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely including in Esquire, Granta, and The Caribbean Review of Books. He is also the author of The Book of Night Women and John Crow's Devil. His third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, was the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, a recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, and named a best book of the year by various outlets such as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, amongst many others.