Lannan Readings & Conversations

Jamaica Kincaid

with William Gass
Wednesday May 17 2000

Audio for this event is not available.
William Gass Photo: Don Usner 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.

Jamaica Kincaid Bio and Cross Links


William Gass Photo: Don Usner William Gass is a novelist, essayist, philosopher, and teacher. Mr. Gass, whose books include Cartesian Sonata, The Tunnel, and Omensetter's Luck, received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. William Gass states in his essay Culture, Self, and Society , "A culture morally and functionally fails which does not let its crazies, its artists and its saints, its scientists and politicians, claim, on occasion, a higher law than its own congresses can pass, traditions permit, or conscience conceive."

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