Fiction writer Edwidge Danticat had accomplished the twin literary feats of winning a Pushcart Prize for short fiction and being nominated for the prestigious National Book Award before she reached the age of thirty. Concentrating her focus on the life...

The life and works of Haitian author Edwidge Danticat are examined. Danticat is the first Haitian woman to write in English and have her work supported by a major publishing house. The author has lost a great deal of her cherished privacy since she...

She was only about 25 when her first novel, "Breath, Eyes, Memory," began casting a spell over readers in 1994. Critics praised Edwidge Danticat as a graceful and vibrant writer and forgave some of the excesses in this story of a 12-year-old who leaves...

Edwidge and the Angry inch: It’s reading season, when we try to behave like the secular urban intellectuals the red states think we are after a summer spent devouring nanny lit in sunburned stupor on the beach! Hence the smugly erudite New Yorker Festival, featuring...

Should Christopher Hitchens win a National Book Award, you can be sure he won't thank any higher powers.The author, columnist and commentator was nominated for "God Is Not Great," a polemic with a self-evident theme. Hitchens' book received mixed reviews, but became a best seller...

In the following essay, Chancy examines the manner in which both Magloire and Danticat demonstrate the extent to which Haitian women have been rendered “invisible in a society itself typified through their sexualization and denigration.”

In the following interview, Shea and Danticat discuss various aspects of Danticat's work, including mother-daughter relationships and imagery.

In the following interview, Danticat discusses the stories included in Krik? Krak!