Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Marlon James

Literary

Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Marlon James

Sponsored by KNKX. Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1970. He graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1991 with a degree in Language and Literature, and from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania in 2006 with a Masters in creative writing. In 2018 Marlon James received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. In April 2019 he was named one of Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2019 in the Pioneers category. In 2024 his book A Brief History of Seven Killings (#42) was one of the New York Times Book Review‘s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

Town Hall Seattle - The Great Hall

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07:30 PM - 09:30 PM on Wed, 6 May 2026

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