Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid was born on 25 May 1949 in St John's, Antigua, as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson. Sent to the United States in 1966, at the age of seventeen, as an au pair, she began publishing in 1973 and took a pseudonym because her family disapproved of her writing. She was for twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker, nine of them for the Talk of the Town section, and then taught at Harvard. She lives in Vermont, and the garden has become one of her subjects.

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• NovelAnnie JohnJamaica Kincaid · 1985Literature