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Kincaid, Jamaica

LC control no.n 83151180
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR9275.A583 K56
Personal name headingKincaid, Jamaica
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Variant(s)Richardson, Elaine Potter
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedVermont
Birth date1949-05-25
Place of birthSaint John's (Antigua and Barbuda)
Field of activityFiction Novels
AffiliationHarvard University
Westchester Community College (White Plains, N.Y.)
Profession or occupationJournalists Lecturers Authors Novelists College teachers
Found inHer At the bottom of the river, c1983: CIP t.p. (Jamaica Kincaid)
Ferguson, M. Jamaica Kincaid, 1994: CIP chronology (b. Elaine Potter Richardson, May 25, 1949 in Antigua; 1973, changes name to Jamaica Kincaid)
African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Kincaid, Jamaica; novelist, travel writer, journalist; born 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda; in 1965, left Antigua for the United States; worked as an au pair in New York; took classes at Westchester Community College in White Plains, New York, and then later at Franconia College in New Hampshire; found a job with Art Direction magazine; her first published work of fiction "Girl" appeared in the New Yorker in 1977; In the early twenty-first century, she was a visiting lecturer in African and African American Studies and in English and American Literature at Harvard University)
Kincaid, Jamaica. The autobiography of my mother, 2013: unnum. prelim. p. (Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. She lives with her family in Vermont)
Associated languageeng