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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 252

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In her study at home in North Bennington, 2018. Interview still frame courtesy of Stephanie Black. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on Antigua in 1949. When she was sixteen, her family interrupted her education, sending her to work as a nanny in New York. In time, she put herself o...

Interviewed by Darryl Pinckney Issue 239, Spring 2022 In her study at home in North Bennington, 2018. Interview still frame courtesy of Stephanie Black. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on Antigua in 1949. When she was sixteen, her family interrupted her education, sending her to work as a nanny in New York. In time, she put herself on another path. She went from the New School in Manhattan to Franconia College in New Hampshire, and worked at Magnum Photos and at the teen magazine Ingenue . In the mid-'70s, she began to write for The Village Voice , but it was at The New Yorke

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