Lannan Foundation

Jamaica Kincaid was born and raised in Antigua, West Indies. She is the author of My Brother, a memoir of her relationship with her brother who died of AIDS, which was nominated for the National Book Award.

She has also written three novels, The Autobiography of My Mother, Lucy, and Annie John, and a collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River. Critic Michiko Kakutani has said, “She writes with passion and conviction, and she also writes with a musical sense of language, a poet’s understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur.”

She lives in Bennington, Vermont, with her family.