![]() ![]() ![]() In a New York Times interview, Kincaid also said: "The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me." But then I got more of things I didn't have, like a certain kind of cruelty and neglect. The good emotional things, I got a short end of that. Our family money remained the same, but there were more people to feed and to clothe, and so everything got sort of shortened, not only material things but emotional things. After her brothers' births, she resented her mother, who thereafter focused primarily on the brothers' needs. She was very close to her mother until her three brothers were born in quick succession, starting when Kincaid was nine years old. She grew up in relative poverty with her mother, a literate, cultured woman and homemaker, and her stepfather, a carpenter. ![]() ![]() Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in St John's, Antigua, on May 25, 1949. She lives in North Bennington, Vermont and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). Jamaica Kincaid ( / k ɪ n ˈ k eɪ d/ born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. ![]()
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