Sponsors:
IPFW Visiting Writers Series of the Department of English and Linguistics
IPFW Diversity Council
Jamaica Kincaid
“Reading and Growing Up Under Colonial Rule”
Thursday, February 11, 2010 | 7:30 p.m.
Auer Performance Hall, John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center
NO TICKETS REQUIRED FOR THIS LECTURE
Jamaica Kincaid skillfully tempers the boundary between poetry and prose. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, she left her native country of Antigua at age 16 bound for New York. Following years of college coursework and freelance writing projects, she secured a position at a teenage girl’s magazine. But it was her work in The Village Voice that led to greater promise with The New Yorker and her first book, At the Bottom of the River (1983). Kincaid’s other award-winning novels include Annie John (1985), A Small Place (1988), and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (2005).