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Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

LC control no.n 93100617
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LC classificationPS3554.A5815
Personal name headingDanticat, Edwidge, 1969-
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See alsoEmployer: University of Miami
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Employer: New York University
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedMiami (Fla.) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date1969-01-19
Place of birthPort-au-Prince (Haiti)
Field of activityCreative writing French literature Art Education, Higher
AffiliationUniversity of Miami
New York University
Yale University
Brown University
Barnard College
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Novelists
Found inBreath, eyes, memory, c1994: CIP title page (Edwidge Danticat) data sheet (b. 01-19-69)
Everything inside, 2019: dust jacket (Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, an American Book Award winner, a National Book Award finalist, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Miami)
Wikipedia, Apr. 21, 2014 (Edwidge Danticat (b. January 19, 1969, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian-American author; In 1993, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Brown University, an honorary Doctor of Letters also from Brown in 2008, and another from Yale University in 2013; has taught creative writing at the New York University and the University of Miami)
   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwidge_Danticat>
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Danticat, Edwidge; fiction writer; born 19 January 1969 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; when she was four years old, her parents left Haiti for the United States to escape the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier; she joined her family in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn; obtained a degree in French Literature from Barnard College (1990) and a master's in Fine Arts from Brown University (1993); lives in New York City)
Associated languageeng