6-Month Campaign
This book publicity case study outlines Coriolis Company’s work for Marlene Daut’s The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, published by Knopf on January 7, 2025. The First and Last King of Haiti is a riveting story of not only geopolitical clashes on a grand scale but also of friendship and loyalty, treachery and betrayal, heroism and strife in an era of revolutionary upheaval.
Events
January 31, 2025, Book Signing at Word Up Community Bookstore, New York City, NY
March 26, 2025, Marlene L. Daut, Author of The First and Last King of Haiti in Dialogue with Kaiama Glover, hosted by Haiti Community Exchange and Café con Libros, Brooklyn, NY
May 14, 2025, Author Reading with Dr. Régine Michelle Jean-Charles hosted by Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
Interviews
October 4, 2024, “This week on WURD: Black cowboys in America, National Voter Education Week, Haiti’s only king,” Wake Up With WURD
December 1, 2024, “Social Impact Authors: How & Why Author Marlene Daut Is Helping To Change Our World,” Authority Magazine
December 16, 2024, “Scholar Sounds Off on Harmful MAGA Stereotypes,” Social Society w/ Brandon Clark
January 6, 2025, “Henry Christophe: The King of Haiti,” Unsung History
January 9, 2025, Marlene Daut joins Tavis Smiley, The Tavis Smiley Show
January 11, 2025, On-air interview on KKFI’s Urban Connections
January 12, 2025, “CityLine: A new book details the rise and fall of a Haitian monarch,” WCVB5 ABC Boston
January 15, 2025, “The First and Last King of Haiti: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut,” Black Perspectives
January 23, 2025, “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe,” The Academic Life
January 23, 2025, “The First and Last King of Haiti,” New Books Network
February 3, 2025, “An Interview with Marlene Daut, Author of The First and Last King of Haiti,” What We Reading
February 5, 2025, “Episode 151: Henri Christophe: First and Last King of Haiti with Benjamin Wright,” 15 Minute History
February 6, 2025, On-air interview on The Karen Hunter Show
February 6, 2025, “What does the international community owe to Haiti?” 1A
February 11, 2025, “Episode 59: Marlene Daut Returns to Storytelling with Kate Carpenter,” Drafting the Past
February 17, 2025, “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe,” Fox2 KTVU
February 27, 2025, “The Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums | The First and Last King of Haiti” with Daren Jaime
Reviews and Features
December 11, 2024, “Henry Christophe and the 1791 Haitian Revolution,” C-SPAN
January 7, 2025, “Spotlight: The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L Daut,” What is That Book About
January 8, 2025, Book Spotlight on Instagram, Sasha Wells (@bahareads)
January 12, 2025, “Haiti: The failed return of French domination,” The Mail & Guardian
January 22, 2025, “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe,” Washington Independent Review of Books
January 30, 2025, “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut: Excerpt,” Women Writers, Women’s Books
January 31, 2025, “January 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us,” Ms. Magazine
February 5, 2025, “Marlene L. Daut’s The First and Last King of Haiti,” Page 99 Test. Reposted in Campaign for the American Reader
February 26, 2025, Book Spotlight on Instagram, @ifthisisparadise
September 12, 2025, “‘Astonish the World’: Teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe,” Liberating Narratives
Book Publicity Assets
Coriolis also provided 523 visual book marketing assets for use on Marlene Daut’s website and her social media. These consisted of 434 graphics and 89 video assets.
*This post was last updated on September 17, 2025.
