Kincaid, Jamaica
Kincaid, Jamaica ( 1949 – ),novelist and short story writer, born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua. Her first work, At the Bottom of the River ( 1983 ), was a volume of short stories based on childhood in the Caribbean: her first novel, Annie John ( 1985 ), set in Antigua, explores the fierce vicissitudes of a daughter's love for her mother and her homeland; Lucy ( 1990 ) describes a girl leaving Antigua for America, and The Autobiography of my Mother ( 1995 ) is a first-person narrative in which a woman looks back on her troubled life. A Small Place ( 1988 ) describes Antigua. Some of her works were first published in the New Yorker , where she worked ( 1976 – 95 ) as a staff writer.
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