![]() ![]() ![]() Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (1985, ?)Īnnie lives an idyllic life on her lovely island. She is an only child, very attached to her mother, full of pity for her father (for he wasn’t brought up by his own mother). Through the narrative, Annie John goes from years 10 to 15. Today I finished Jamaica Kincaid’s first novel Annie John(1985) – an elegant little coming-of-age tale in the tradition of The Catcher in the Ryeand A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (1985, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Kincaid now lives in North Bennington, Vermont and teaches at Harvard as the “Professor of African and African American studies in Residence”. In 1979, Kincaid married Shawn’s son, the composer and Bennington College professor, Allen Shawn. Around 1976, impressed with her writing, The New Yorker‘s legendary editor, William Shawn hired Kincaid as a staff writer. After three years, she attended Franconia College in New Hampshire on a full scholarship. John’s, Antigua in 1949, Kincaid moved to a suburb of New York City in 1966 to work as an au pair. She is also a keen gardener.īorn to a poor family in St. ![]() ![]() She is the author of the books Annie John, Lucy, A Small Place, At the Bottom of the River, See Now Then…that deal with issues of colonialism, adolescence, race and class, gender and sexuality. I have been wanting to read Jamaica Kincaid – the Antiguan-American writer – for quite a while. ![]()
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