Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid (born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, and gardening writer born in St. John's, Antigua in 1949. She is known for her lyrical, evocative portrayals of family relationships, colonialism, and postcolonial themes, with her breakthrough work being the short story 'Girl' published in The New Yorker in 1978. She is currently Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence Emerita at Harvard University and resides in North Bennington, Vermont.