Jamaica Kincaid and Jane King

Jamaica Kincaid

Born in the Caribbean English, to Antigua, in 1965 she immigrated to the United States and became a contributor to the New Yorker from 1976 to 1995. She became famous with several novels that feature a large part of autobiography as' Lucy 'in 1990,' Autobiography of my mother, in 1996, and ' My Brother 'in 1997. Now she's back on the history of her father, always keeping this universe uprooted, always between two waters, West Indian or American. In 1973 she changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid because her family disapproved of the fact that he wrote. Her first experience as writing for a series of articles is for Ingenue magazine. He worked for The New Yorker until 1995. Her novel Lucy (1990) is a fictional description of his experience of becoming an adult in a foreign country and continues the narrative of his personal history began with the novel Annie John (1985). Other novels, including, “The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), explores the question of colonialism and anger that this caused her memory. She has also published a collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983) and one of essays, A Small Place. She teaches creative writing at Harvard University. He also received an honorary doctorate in literature from Wesleyan University.

It has been 10 years since Jamaica Kincaid's last novel, but on September 4, 2012, she'll be back with a slender book about a family in crisis, See Now Then (FSG). Kincaid, who was born in Antigua, makes several nods to literary history in this family drama: The Sweets live in the Shirley Jackson house in Vermont, for one. This mismatched couple has two children, Heracles and Persephone, who are the main observers of their parents' crumbling marriage. Known for her penetrating ...