Andrea Levy was born on 7 March 1956.
She came to storytelling via what she had seen on television, rather than what she had read and was the author of six books, including Small Island, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Whitbread book of the Year
Born in England to Jamaican parents who came to Britain in 1948, Andrea Levy grew up on a council estate in north London and did not read a novel until she was 23 years old.She wrote novels about what she knew: engaging books that reflect the experiences of Black Britons and the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean. Her award-winning Small Island was adapted for TV and for the stage. Her novel The Long Song won the Walter Scott Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2010. It, too, was adapted for TV. She died on 14 February 2019, aged 62.
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