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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid. Born: 1949, St. Johns, Antigua. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid. Lived, in Antigua, with her mother and step father, a carpenter, until 1965. Kincaid moved to New York City in 1965; she worked as an au pair (nanny). .

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Jamaica Kincaid

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  1. Jamaica Kincaid

  2. Jamaica Kincaid Born: 1949, St. Johns, Antigua Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson

  3. Jamaica Kincaid

  4. Jamaica Kincaid Lived, in Antigua, with her mother and step father, a carpenter, until 1965. Kincaid moved to New York City in 1965; she worked as an au pair (nanny).

  5. Jamaica Kincaid While in Antigua, Kincaid completed her British secondary education. (Antigua was a British colony until 1966.) In the US, she attended the New School for Social Research (photography), and Franconia College in New Hampshire for a year.

  6. Jamaica Kincaid Worked for a variety of magazines (Forbes, Ingenue, The New Yorker) as a fact checker and later as a staff writer. She has taught creative writing at Harvard, but is now a professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College in California.

  7. Jamaica Kincaid Kincaid has a son, Harold, and a daughter, Annie, with her ex-husband, composer Allen Shawn. During the summers, she and her family live in Vermont. She enjoys gardening.

  8. Jamaica Kincaid Her writing includes... Annie John (1985) Lucy (1990) Small Place (1988) Autobiography of My Mother (1996) My Brother (1997) At the Bottom of the River (1990) Talk Stories (2001)

  9. Jamaica Kincaid Controversial views... Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Kincaid wanted to ban “church groups” claiming their main reason was to “eradicate the voodoo belief, rather than charity.” (Kincaid is a convert to Judaism.)

  10. Jamaica Kincaid Controversial views... She further stated that the US was only interested in Haiti since the earthquake. (The US has invested nearly $4 billion in foreign aid to Haiti since 1990. In April 2010 when Haiti’s president requested $5 billion in aid, US donors pledged over $10 billion.)

  11. Jamaica Kincaid Do you recognize who is pictured here with Jamaica Kincaid? Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street.

  12. Jamaica KincaidAntigua

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