| LC control no. | n 83151180 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9275.A583 K56 |
| Personal name heading | Kincaid, Jamaica |
| Variant(s) | Richardson, Elaine Potter |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Vermont |
| Birth date | 1949-05-25 |
| Place of birth | Saint John's (Antigua and Barbuda) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Novels |
| Affiliation | Harvard University Westchester Community College (White Plains, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Lecturers Authors Novelists College teachers |
| Found in | Her 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 language | eng |
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