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Andrea Lee (left) and Jamaica Kincaid chat with admirers and sign copies of their books after their readings. (Staff photo by Stephanie Mitchell) HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES W.E.B. DuBois Institute hosts Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Lee: Authors kick off Black Writers Reading series By Beth Potier
Gazette Staff
Authors Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Lee '81 kicked the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute's Black Writers Reading series off to a rousing start Wednesday evening (Feb. 5), bringing a standing-room-only crowd to the Barker Center's Thompson Room. The women, who were contemporaries on The New Yorker staff and who both have daughters entering Harvard's class of 2007, read from their very different styles of fiction. Kincaid, a former visiting professor in Harvard's English and Afro-American Studies Department, was born Elaine Potter Richardson on the Caribbean island of Antigua. She came to New York to work as an au pair as a young woman, then launched her literary career from The New Yorker under editor William Shawn. Her work includes "Annie John," "My Mother," "Lucy," and "A Small Place," a sharp criticism of the impact of colonialism on her native Antigua. | |
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