Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, Mr. Potter, and See Now Then. She teaches at Harvard University and lives in Vermont.
National Book Awards Finalist
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The Autobiography of My Mother
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Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age
Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography...
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A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of Annie John.
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our...
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At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
Kincaid’s first book, which announced the arrival of a singular talent, “will burn on your shelf” (Derek Walcott).
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge gently into...
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Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.
Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River,...
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See Now Then
Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
A startlingly beautiful novel about marriage by “one of our most scouringly vivid writers” (The New York Times Book Review).
In See Now Then, Jamaica...
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My Garden (Book)
Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
Jamaica Kincaid invites us into her garden in this “irresistible stream of horticultural consciousness” (Michael Pollan).
Jamaica Kincaid’s first garden in Vermont...
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My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
Finalist for the 1997 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Jamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid’s...
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Mr. Potter
Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
The “revelatory” (The New York Review of Books) story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home.
Jamaica Kincaid’s first obsession, the island of...
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An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A unique collaboration from two of America’s leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world.
In...
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Talk Stories
Jamaica Kincaid; Introduction by Ian Frazier
Picador
Picador
Jamaica Kincaid’s collected writings for The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.
Talk Stories...
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My Favorite Plant
Picador
Picador
Kincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author’s favorite flora.
The passion for gardening and the passion for words come...
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Among Flowers
Jamaica Kincaid
Picador
Picador
In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds...
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