Marlon James
Born 1970
Quotes
“Make no mistake, there’s formula detective fiction, there’s formula science fiction…but there’s formula literary fiction too. It’s genre snobbery that we’re only ready to acclaim stuff that’s of the genre but different in some way. It’s sci-fi but, it’s fantasy but… I didn’t want to write a but.”
On the animus against genre writing in “Marlon James: ‘You have to risk going to “Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.”
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Chapter 1
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Books by Marlon James in order
Books by Marlon James in the order they were published, from John Crow's Devil (2005) to The Disappearers (2026).
