Career
Marqusee"s first published work was the essay "Turn Left at Scarsdale", written when he was a sixteen-year-old high school student in New York and included in the 1970 collection "High School Revolutionaries". Marqusee, who described himself as a "deracinated New York Marxist Jew", lived in Britain from 1971. He wrote mainly about politics, popular culture, the Indian sub-continent and cricket, and was a regular correspondent for, among others, The Guardian, Red Pepper and The Hindu.
After he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2007, he wrote extensively on health issues, and in defence of the National Health Service.
His book The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer was published in 2014. He was also a leading figure in Iraq Occupation Focus.
In 2014, he was working on a proposed biography of the writers Tom Paine and William Blake. He died in January 2015, aged 61, of multiple myeloma.
Before it was published, wrote Rob Steen, "observations of subcontinental cricket emanating from Britain, and just about every other corner of the so-called old world, tended to be clichéd, wrongheaded, derisive, patronising or just plain racist.
