Marlon James is best known for \u201cA Brief History of Seven Killings\u201d, a sweeping, violent novel about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2015. His new novel \xa0\u201cBlack Leopard, Red Wolf\u201d \xa0is the first in the \u201cDark Star Trilogy,\u201d a fantasy series which James describes as an African Game of Thrones.
\n\nOn February 19, 2019, Marlon James came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk with fellow author Jeff Chang.