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    Jamaica Kincaid (/kɪnˈkeɪd/; born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening...
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  • A Small Place (category Novels by Jamaica Kincaid)
    work of creative nonfiction published in 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid. A book-length essay drawing on Kincaid's experiences growing up in Antigua, it can be read...
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  • Lucy (1990) is a novella by Jamaica Kincaid. The story begins in medias res: the eponymous Lucy has come from the West Indies to the United States to...
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  • history at Bennington College and was formerly married to novelist Jamaica Kincaid, with whom he has a son, Harold, and a daughter, Annie. He is married...
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  • Guantánamo Province Jamaica, Mayabeque Mercado Jamaica, Mexico City (Jamaica Market) Jamaica Kincaid, African American author Jamaica (novel), a novel by...
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  • of the River is a collection of short stories by Caribbean novelist Jamaica Kincaid. Published in 1983, it was her first short story collection. The collection...
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  • Girl (short story) (category Works by Jamaica Kincaid)
    "Girl" is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid that was included in At the Bottom of the River (1983). It appeared in the June 26, 1978 issue of The...
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  • Annie John (category Novels by Jamaica Kincaid)
    Annie John, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985, details the growth of a girl in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean. It covers issues as diverse...
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  • Communication Harrison R. Kincaid (1836–1920), American politician Hilda Kincaid (1886–1967), Australian medical practitioner Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949), Antiguan-American...
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  • See Now Then is the fifth novel of author Jamaica Kincaid, first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013. Though reviewers were quick to note the...
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    Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, (eds) "Rita Dove" and "Jamaica Kincaid" (literary biographies) in Encyclopedia of African American Culture...
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  • took creative writing workshops, studying with Jayne Anne Phillips, Jamaica Kincaid and Richard Ford, and went on to earn an MFA from the University of...
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  • clean, after which he is welcomed back home with his now pink face. Jamaica Kincaid also considers the Noddy books to be "deeply racist" because of the...
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  • of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford William Kennedy Ironweed Jamaica Kincaid At the Bottom of the River Bernard Malamud The Stories Cynthia Ozick...
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    by Tina Kover, edited by Werner Sollors and with an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid, was published by Random House, Inc./Modern Library in May 2007. The...
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  • Life and Debt (category Economy of Jamaica)
    essay "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid. The IMF loans were conditional on structural adjustment policies, which required Jamaica to enact major economic...
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    them Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Karen DeCrow, Wendy Kaminer and Jamaica Kincaid. While the legality of adult sexual entertainment varies by country...
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  • Mr. Potter (novel) (category Novels by Jamaica Kincaid)
    Mr. Potter (2002) is a novel by Antiguan born writer Jamaica Kincaid. It tells the story of a girl growing up without a father. When Mr. Potter, the father...
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    host of The Amazing Race, lived here during part of his childhood Jamaica Kincaid, novelist famous for her writings about life on Antigua. Her 1988 book...
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  • noted conservative scholar Arabic scholar Bassam Frangieh Author Jamaica Kincaid Political scientist Ken Miller Historian Wendy Lower Psychologist Diane...
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    Norwegian actress and former Miss Norway Angela Hartnett, English chef Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-American author and Harvard professor Veronica Maggio, Swedish...
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  • Amitav Ghosh (1956–) Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948–) Mohsin Hamid (1971–) Jamaica Kincaid (1949–) Jhumpa Lahiri (1967–) Ben Okri (1959–) Michael Ondaatje (1943–)...
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  • and its residents were criticized in A Small Place, a 1988 book by Jamaica Kincaid, which noted that ordinary Antiguans stood no chance of entry to the...
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  • Book Review S. D. Jones, Conrad Efraim former professional wrestler Jamaica Kincaid, novelist famous for her writings about life on Antigua. Her book A...
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  • of her senior thesis at Harvard University under the direction of Jamaica Kincaid. In a series of vignettes, Ganeshananthan's novel chronicles how Sri...
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    autobiography David Grossman (b. 1954)  Israel Hebrew novel, essays Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)  Antigua and Barbuda  United States English novel, essays...
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  • "Lucy", a song by Sharon Needles from Taxidermy Lucy (novel) (1990), by Jamaica Kincaid – a West Indian au pair in America Lucy (2003 film), a TV biopic about...
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  • Oates 1992: Susan Sontag 1993: Joseph Epstein 1994: Tracy Kidder 1995: Jamaica Kincaid 1996: Geoffrey C. Ward 1997: Ian Frazier 1998: Cynthia Ozick 1999:...
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  • be considered a British writer instead of a Trinidadian writer, or Jamaica Kincaid and Paule Marshall American writers, but most West Indian readers and...
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    (2017) Hilton Als (2018) Rita Dove (2019) Michael Eric Dyson (2020) Jamaica Kincaid (2021) Lynn Nottage (2023) Colson Whitehead (2024) Raymond R. Patterson...
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