Kincaid

[kin-keyd]

noun

1. Jamaica, born 1949, West Indian novelist and short-story writer.

Example Sentences

Since her 1985 debut novel, “Annie John,” the Antiguan-born Kincaid has been impossible to ignore, and this collection of essays and journalism shows why: Even as some critics have found her prose too personal or political, Kincaid knows she meant it to be so.

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Kincaid is one of this country’s finest living writers, if not this country’s best living writer.

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Born in Antigua, Kincaid was sent to New York by her mother to work as a servant, and Kincaid never looked back, making herself into a writer.

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The author of five novels, a collection of short stories, numerous works of nonfiction on gardening and the astounding pseudo-memoir “My Brother,” Kincaid is now publishing a collection of her essays from her early days at the New Yorker to the present.

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The subtitle says it all: “Writing 1974 –.” We need that dash; we need Kincaid.

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