Biography jamaica kincaid

Antiguan-American writer (born )

Jamaica Kincaid (; born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson on May 25, )^[1] is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer.

Born in St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, she now lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence, Emerita at Harvard University.^[2]

Biography

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John's on the island of Antigua, on 25 May ^[3] She grew up in relative poverty with her mother, a literate, cultured woman and homemaker, and her stepfather, a carpenter.^[3][4][5][6] She was very close to her mother until her three brothers were born in quick succession, starting when Kincaid was nine years old.

After her brothers' births, she resented her mother, who thereafter focused primarily on the brothers' needs. Kincaid later recalled,

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