WRITER

Jamaica Kincaid

1949 - Today

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Jamaica Kincaid (; born May 25, 1949) 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jamaica Kincaid has received more than 812,741 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jamaica Kincaid is the 5,271st most popular writer (down from 4,918th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Antigua and Barbuda (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Antiguan, Barbudan Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 810k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Annie John
Coming of age, Mothers and daughters, Teenage girls
Episodes from the young life of Annie John, aged 10 to 17, as she grows up on the Caribbean Island of Antigua. This is a magical coming-of-age tale, ripe with the special ambience of its tropical setting and sustained by Annie's far from naive awareness of the world around her. Death, illness, and poverty intrude on the narrator's perceptive sensibility from time to time, but even these experiences instruct her and expand her understanding of life and its shifting reality. Although Annie leaves Antigua at the end of the novel for a new role as a student in England, the hollowness she feels at her departure is balanced by the new self that awaits her as she begins the search for her own identity. A poetic and intensely moving work from the author of At the Bottom of the River.
1985
Mr. Potter
Fathers and daughters, Chauffeurs, Fiction
2002
Lucy
Fiction, West Indian Americans, Women domestics
1990
At the bottom of the river
Social life and customs, Fiction, Manners and customs
1983
A small place
Antiguan Novelists, Antiguan and Barbudan Novelists, Biography
1988
The autobiography of my mother
Fiction, Women, Weibliche Schwarze
The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.
1996

Page views of Jamaica Kincaids by language

Over the past year Jamaica Kincaid has had the most page views in the with 103,978 views, followed by Spanish (5,868), and Swedish (5,169). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (1,282.05%), Haitian (124.30%), and Macedonian (70.25%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jamaica Kincaid ranks 5,271 out of 7,302. Before her are Jan Frans Willems, Idea Vilariño, Anna Świrszczyńska, Vladimir Makanin, Alexis, and Chester Himes. After her are Jørn Lier Horst, Bahaa Taher, Holly Black, Takashi Tezuka, Armand Lanoux, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jamaica Kincaid ranks 495. Before her are Wendy O. Williams, Venkaiah Naidu, Michael Bleekemolen, Karel Loprais, Marek Jędraszewski, and Lyubov Polishchuk. After her are Karel Lismont, Jon Avnet, Queen Aishwarya of Nepal, David Cross, Helmut Kremers, and Yuri Baturin.

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In Antigua and Barbuda

Among people born in Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica Kincaid ranks 3 out of 11. Before her are Louise Lake-Tack (1944), and Rodney Williams (1947). After her are Baldwin Spencer (1948), Gaston Browne (1967), James Carlisle (1937), Vere Bird (1910), Viv Richards (1952), Daniel Bailey (1986), James Beckford (1975), and Brendan Christian (1983).

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Among WRITERS In Antigua and Barbuda

Among writers born in Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica Kincaid ranks 1. 

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