Ms.
Jamaica Kincaid
Harvard University
Writer (novelist, nonfiction writer)
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2009
Fiction and Nonfiction Writer; Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College. Known for candid and emotionally charged writing. Former staff writer for The New Yorker. Works include At the Bottom of the River (1983), Annie John (1985), A Small Place (1988), The Autobiography of My Mother, (1996) and, most recently, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya. (2005). Currently at work on new novel, See Now Then.
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