1. Jamaica Kincaid - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia In 1973, she changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid because her family disapproved of her writing. Her first writing experience involved a series of articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson 25 May in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda ) is an American novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family at North Bennington in the U.S. state of Vermont Contents Early life Writing career Family Works ... edit Early life Kincaid lived with her stepfather , a carpenter , and her mother until . In Antigua , she completed her secondary education under the British system, due to Antigua's status as a British colony until She moved to New York at the age of 17 to work for a family as an au pair . She worked as a fact checker at Forbes magazine where she became close friends with Marsha Daniel of Raleigh, North Carolina who was working at Forbes as a reporter and her husband, the author, magazine publisher, and professor Myles Ludwig, who was then the editorial director of Art Direction magazine and later the creative director at Penthouse and Viva magazines, and Peter Ainsley who was the music critic for Womens Wear Daily and later worked as a writer for Time magazine. They spent a great deal of time together. Ludwig, Daniel, Richardson and Ainslie spent many weekends in the early 70s with Christopher Tree. Tree was a California hippie who played a variety of musical instruments in a performance act called Spontaneous Sound. Tree was living in a small house in New Paltz, New York with his then girlfriend on a non-working farm owned by an advertising executive. After Richardson had returned to university, she wrote to Ludwig asking for a job and he hired her to work at Art Direction. She went on to study

2. New York State Writers Institute - Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid s most recent work is the novel The Autobiography of My Mother, which was released in January 1996. Her first three booksAt the Bottom of http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/kincaid.html

Jamaica Kincaid Air Date: WMHT, Channel 17, Saturday, May 29, 1999, 6:00 p.m. Air Date: WMHQ, Channel 45, Wednesday, June 2, 1999, 9:30 p.m Hear Jamaica Kincaid talk about her writing. Jamaica Kincaid's most recent work is the novel The Autobiography of My Mother, which was released in January 1996. Her first three books At the Bottom of the River Annie John (1985), and A Small Place (1988)focus on life in her birthplace, Antigua, West Indies. In these books, Kincaid employs a highly poetic literary style celebrated for its rhythms, imagery, and characterization. With the publication of At the Bottom of the River , Kincaid was hailed as an important new voice in American fiction. Milton wrote in the New York Times Book Review , that Kincaid's tales "have all the force of illuminating, and even prophetic power," and David Leavitt noted in the Village Voice that her stories move "with grace and ease from the mundane to the enormous." Henry Louis Gates Jr., a distinguished critic and black studies scholar compared Kincaid's work to that of Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka: "There is a self-contained world which they explore with great detail. Not to chart the existence of the world, but to show that human emotions manifest themselves everywhere." Kincaid has received numerous awards and honors, including the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for

3. Writers Of The Caribbean - Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid was born on May 25, 1949 in Antigua. She was christened Elaine Potter Richardson, but when she fled the island at the age of seventeen. http://core.ecu.edu/engl/deenas/caribbean/kincaid.htm

Jamaica Kincaid Antigua Biography Works Links Home Biography Jamaica Kincaid was born on May 25, 1949 in Antigua. She was christened Elaine Potter Richardson, but when she fled the island at the age of seventeen. When she left her family as well as her name behind and entered North America as Jamaica Kincaid. Her work is considered autobiographical work. She worked first in New York City as an au pair, for an upper class family much like the one pictured in Lucy. She left this work to study photography at the New School for Social Research and then went on to Franconia College in New Hampshire (but did not take a degree) before returning to New York. There she became a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine, writing for nearly twenty years (1976-1995) before the arrival of new management convinced her to leave. She now resides in Bennington Vermont with her husband and children. Works (list compiled from Voices from the Gap Talk Stories (2001) My Garden (1999) My Favorite Plant (editor) (1998) My Brother (1997) The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) "Song of Roland." New Yorker (12 April 1993)

4. Jamaica Kincaid --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Jamaica Kincaid CaribbeanAmerican writer whose essays, stories, and novels are evocative portrayals of family http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9124992/Jamaica-Kincaid

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5. Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear, In 1973, she changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid because her family disapproved of her writing. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/Kincaid.html

World Literature in English Jamaica Kincaid Biography Major Themes w. map of Antigua Synopsis of Annie John Works Cited Related Sites Issues for Discussion: Annie John The Circling Hand 'Columbus in Chains' A Walk to the Jetty Annie John Synopsis Reviews and Commentary for Annie John , Amazon) Biography born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson on the island of Antigua. Her stepfather, a carpenter, and her mother Received British education in Antigua. 1965: sent to Westchester, New York to work as an au pair. ("As the eldest of four, and the only girl, she was apprenticed to a seamstress, then plucked from school, where she was excelling, and sent to the US as an au pair ["really a servant"] from " Kincaid in Revolt 1967: studied photography at the New York School for Social Research after leaving the family for which she worked, and also attended Franconia College in New Hampshire for a year. Her first writing experience involved a series of articles for Ingenue magazine. In 1973, she changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid because her family disapproved of her writing. (About her name: "'Jamaica is an English corruption of what Columbus called Xaymaca.'" This renaming is a theme in Kincaid's works both fiction and non-fiction. According to Kincaid, renaming is a metaphor for conquest and colonial domination. )

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8. Speakers Worldwide, Inc. - Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid was born and educated in St. John s, Antigua, in the West Indies, and she now lives with her husband and children in Vermont. http://www.speakersworldwide.com/Kincaid.html

Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid was born and educated in St. John's, Antigua, in the West Indies, and she now lives with her husband and children in Vermont. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and The Paris Review. Ms. Kincaid's first book, At The Bottom Of The River , which Plume reissued in January 1992, was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and went on to win the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Her second book, Annie John, published by Plume in 1986, is the story of a young girl's coming of age in the West Indies. Susan Kerney, writing in The New York Times Book Review, thought Annie John's story so "touching and familiar it could be happening in Anchorage, so inevitable it could be happening to any of us, any time, any place. And that's exactly the book's strength, its wisdom, its truth." Of her own literary origins, Ms. Kincaid has said, "It would seem a bit odd for someone like me, coming from the place I come from, not to be interested in what you call richness of description." ( New York Times

9. Jamaica Kincaid - Mahalo Jamaica Kincaid is an American novelist and short story writer. She is also an avid gardener and has published books and articles about gardening. http://www.mahalo.com/Jamaica_Kincaid

var noads = false; Mahalo.com New! Mahalo Follow 2.0 Mahalo Social Login Create Account ... Authors and Writers Jamaica Kincaid Guide Note: Jamaica Kincaid is an American novelist and short story writer. She is also an avid gardener and has published books and articles about gardening. Fast Facts: Birth name: Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson Born: May 25, 1949 in St John's, Antigua Left home at 17 to work as an au pair in New York City Changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid in 1973 because her family disapproved of her writing Staff writer with The New Yorker until 1995 Has two children, Harold and Annie, with ex-husband, Allen Shawn Visiting professor and creative writing teacher at Harvard University The Mahalo Top 7 Wikipedia: Jamaica Kincaid Wired for Books: Audio Interview with Jamaica Kincaid BBC: Jamaica Kincaid, Her Story Salon: Jamaica Kincaid University of Minnesota Voices from the Gaps: Jamaica Kincaid MIT World: A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid NPR: Jamaica Kincaid and the Literature of Defiance Jamaica Kincaid News and Articles Google News Search: Jamaica Kincaid New York Times: Jamaica Kincaid Articles Mother Jones: Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings New York Times: "At Home With: Jamaica Kincaid;Dark Words, Light Being"

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12. The Believer - Interview With Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid, was born on Antigua, May 25, 1949, as Elaine Potter Richardson. She was educated in colonial British schools, and in 1965, http://www.believermag.com/issues/200307/?read=interview_kincaid

13. JAMAICA KINCAID Jamaica Kincaid (Girl) Jamaica Kincaid became a professional writer almost by accident. Living in New York City in the 1970s, she befriended one of the http://www.speakingofstories.org/Author Bios/jamaica_kincaid.htm

Speaking of Stories transforming stories from the page to the stage Who We Are Next Performance Performances Tickets ... Home JAMAICA KINCAID Jamaica Kincaid Girl Jamaica Kincaid became a professional writer almost by accident. Living in New York City in the 1970s, she befriended one of the staff writers at the New Yorker and began to accompany him as he conducted research for the "Talk of the Town" section. Before long, she discovered that she could write and that her writing impressed the editors of the magazine. When her first piece of nonfiction was published, Kincaid remembers, "That is when I realized what my writing was. My writing was the thing I thought. Not something else. Just what I thought." After working as a staff writer at the New Yorker for four years, she began to turn to fiction. Girl is the first piece of fiction she published; it appeared in the New Yorker in 1978. Return to Stories

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15. Jamaica Kincaid Biography And Summary Jamaica Kincaid biography with 556 pages of profile on Jamaica Kincaid sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Jamaica_Kincaid

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16. Jamaica Kincaid Biography, list of major themes, suggested readings, and links. http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Kincaid.html

Jamaica Kincaid Biography Major Themes "I was always being told I should be something, and then my whole upbringing was something I was not: it was English." (Cudjoe 219) "Antigua is a small place, a small island...It was settled by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved by noble and exalted human beings from Africa...to satisfy their desire for wealth and power, to feel better about their own miserable existence, so that they could be less lonely and empty- a European disease" (80-81). Antigua became self-governing in 1967, but did not achieve the status of an independent nation within the Commonwealth until 1981. Within the structure of the British educational system imposed upon Antiguans, Kincaid grew to "detest everything about England, except the literature" (Vorda 79). She felt first-hand the negative effects of British colonialism as the colonists attempted to turn Antigua "into England" and the natives "into English" without regard for the native culture or homeland (Kincaid 24). The effects of colonialism serve as the major theme for A Small Place in which Kincaid expresses her anger both at the colonists and at the Antiguans for failing to fully achieve their independence. She feels that Antiguans failed to adopt the positive aspects of colonialism, for instance a good educational system which might help the population to better their lives. This inability to promote the importance of education and hope for the future is symbolized in the failure to rebuild Antigua's only library, St. John's, which was "damaged in the earthquake of 1974" and years later, still carries the sign "REPAIRS ARE PENDING" (Kincaid 9).

17. SALON Features | Jamaica Kincaid An interview with the author archived at Salonmagazine.com s website. http://www.salon.com/05/features/kincaid.html

T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W By DWIGHT GARNER J amaica Kincaid tall, striking, clear-eyed turns heads when she strides into the lobby of New York's swank Royalton Hotel one chilly day in mid-December. It's not that she is trying very hard, dressed comfortably as she is in rumpled khakis, green blazer, and a mustard-colored bandana. Kincaid simply projects a natural authority that attracts attention, and that spills over into her writing. Over the course of only four books the novels "Annie John" (1985) and "Lucy" (1990), the short story collection "At the Bottom of the River" (1984), and her nonfiction book about her native Antigua titled "A Small Place" (1988) Kincaid has carved out a unique place in the American literary landscape. Writing in spare, deceptively simple prose, her fiction vividly and often harrowingly describes the difficult coming-of-age of strong-minded girls who, very much like herself, were born into tropical poverty. Kincaid now lives in Bennington, Vermont with her husband, the composer Allen Shawn, and their two children. In her precise, elegant British West Indies accent, Kincaid spoke freely about her life and work, notably her recent decision to quit her longtime position as a staff writer for The New Yorker which she now describes as "a version of People magazine" and her relationship with Tina Brown. "She's actually got some nice qualities," Kincaid says about her former editor. "But she can't help but be attracted to the coarse and vulgar. I wish there was a vaccine I would sneak it up on her."

18. VG: Artist Biography: Kincaid, Jamaica jamaica kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson, in 1949 in St. John s, Antigua. As an only child, kincaid maintained a close relationship with her mother http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/kincaid_jamaica.html

Art Praxis Bios By Name By Date By Location ... Bios Jamaica Kincaid b. 1949 I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. Jamaica Kincaid at the University of Minnesota, February 5, 2001 I hope never to be at peace! I hope to make my life manageable, and I think it's fairly manageable now. But oh, I would never accept peace. That seems death. As I sit here enjoying myself to a degree, I never give up thinking about the way I came into the world, how my ancestors came from Africa to the West Indies as slaves. I just could never forget it. Or forgive it. It's like a big wave that's still pulsing. Jamaica Kincaid, in an interview with the New York Times permissions info Jump to: Biography and Criticism Selected Bibliography Non-English Materials Related Links Biography / Criticism According to Frank Birbalisingh, "[Jamaica] Kincaid is probably the most important West Indian woman writing today" ( Contemporary African American Novelists , 263). Her experiences growing up in Antigua under the pressures of poverty, colonialism, and an ambivalent mother inspire and inform the movement of her evocative, edgy, and sometimes controversial prose. Her writing erupts with sharp, piercing emotion as she identifies herself with a "partially remembered, partially dreamed reality" (

19. Jamaica Kincaid jamaica kincaid has packed a lot of valuable insight about the complex relationship between mothers and daughters into this slender novel of interrelated http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/19/home/kincaid.html

More on Jamaica Kincaid From the Archives of The New York Times REVIEWS: Annie John "Jamaica Kincaid has packed a lot of valuable insight about the complex relationship between mothers and daughters into this slender novel of interrelated stories." Lucy "In sparse prose punctuated with the most economical yet precise description, Ms. Kincaid's Lucy makes an accounting of her first year abroad a year in which she never quite arrives where she expected to be, or even unpacks her trunk of documents that purport to show who she is and what she will be doing." The Autobiography of My Mother "A truly ugly meditation on life in some of the most beautiful prose we are likely to find in contemporary fiction." ALSO: Through West Indian Eyes A Profile of Jamaica Kincaid Home Site Index Site Search Forums ... New York Today

20. Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings jamaica kincaid s life reads like an American Cinderella story born and raised in poverty on the island of Antigua, West Indies; unloved by an unresponsive http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1997/09/snell.html

HOME RECENT POLITICS BLOGS ... RSS MOTHER JONES BY E-MAIL Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings By Marilyn Snell September/October 1997 Issue TOOLS E-mail article Print article document.write("Digg") document.write("del.icio.us") document.write("Reddit") document.write("Yahoo MyWeb") BACKTALK E-mail the editor document.write("StumbleUpon") document.write("Newsvine") document.write("Google") South Carolina's Lasting Impact What's Next for (Bill) Clinton and the Anti-Obama Attack Machine? Obama Wins South Carolina; Plus, Bill's Jesse Jackson Comparison Exit Polls in South Carolina Point to Importance of Economy, Dirty Politics ... Dumps on Giuliani in McCain Endorsement J amaica Kincaid's life reads like an American Cinderella story: born and raised in poverty on the island of Antigua, West Indies; unloved by an unresponsive and often abusive mother who shipped her off to the United States at 17 to be an au pair (Kincaid insists on the word "servant" to describe her employment status); "discovered" on the streets of Manhattan by New Yorker columnist George Trow, who brought her into the fold of the magazine by printing one of her articles in the "Talk of the Town" section; became a celebrated fiction writer ( Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother

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