Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist.
Kincaid 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. Her novel ?Lucy? (1990) is an imaginative account of her experience of coming into adulthood in a foreign country, and continues the narrative of her personal history begun in the novel ?Annie John? (1985). Other novels, such as ?The Autobiography of My Mother? explore issues of colonialism and much of the anger associated with it. This text is a unique departure for Kincaid because of the way it crosses genres. She has also published a collection of short stories, At the ?Bottom of the River? (1983), a collection of essays, A Small Place and more.
She is a visiting professor and teaches creative writing at Harvard University.
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