Jamaica Kincaid (; born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. Born in St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, she now lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence, Emerita...
—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters
—Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters
—Meghan O'Rourke in The Long Goodbye