
Jamaica Kincaid
Author · 19 books
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont (in the United States), during the summers, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.
Series
Books

My Favorite Plant
Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love
1998

Annie John
1985

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
1999

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
1986

Lucy
1990

Party
A Mystery
2019

Mr Potter
2002

Girl
1978

An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
2024

The Autobiography of My Mother
1996

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Work from 1970 to the Present
2007

A Small Place
1988

My Brother
1997

Among Flowers
A Walk in the Himalaya
2005

See Now Then
2013

At the Bottom of the River
1983

Talk Stories
2001

My Garden
1999

Biography of a dress
1992