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Jamaica Kincaid

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Biography of Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid is a novelist and essayist.

Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in St. John’s, Antigua. Kincaid was educated in the British colonial education system, as Antigua did not gain its independence from England until 1981. Although she was intelligent and tested at the top of her class, her mother removed Kincaid from school at age sixteen to help support the family when her third and last brother was born because her stepfather was ill and could not provide for the family anymore. Her mother sent her to Scarsdale, a suburb of New York City when she was only seventeen to work as an au pair. However, after this move, Kincaid refused to send money home, she left no forwarding address and was cut off from her family until her return to Antigua 20 years later.

While working as an au pair, Kincaid enrolled in evening classes at a community college. After three years, she resigned from her job to attend Franconia College in New Ham

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Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in St John's, Antigua in May 1949.
In Antigua she received a British education and was frequently at the top of the class.
In early childhood, she was very close to her mother. As the only child, she lived with her mother and stepfather.
When she was nine years old her mother gave birth to three sons in quick succession and this altered their relationship for ever. Kincaid says that she was treated badly, that she was neglected.

"I don't know if having other children was the cause for our relationship changing - it might have changed as I entered adolescence, but her attention went elsewhere. And also our family money remained the same but there were more people to feed and to clothe and so everything got sort of shortened not only material things but emotional things, the good emotional things I got a short end of that. But then I got more of things I didn't have, like a certain kind of cruelty and neglect. In the end it didn't matter. When I was first a young person it did matter a lot becau

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Jamaica Kincaid

At the Bottom of the River. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.

Annie John. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985.

Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam, and Tulip. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, 1986.

A Small Place. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.

Lucy. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

The Autobiography of My Mother. New York, NY. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.

My Brother. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

My Garden (Book). New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Talk Stories. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Mr. Potter. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas. Washington DC: National Geographic, 2005.

See Now Then. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.