By the time she returned, almost twenty years later, she had become a successful writer for the
New Yorker magazine under her chosen name.
Kincaid was born and raised in Antigua, a West Indian island once under British rule. Kincaid's father was a carpenter and her mother kept house, occupations typical for the island's inhabitants. "I grew up on an island in the West Indies which has an area of a hundred and eight square miles," the author recalled in the New Yorker. "On the inland were many sugarcane fields. . . . There were cotton fields, but there were not as many cotton fields as there were sugarcane fields. There were arrowroot fields and tobacco fields, too, but there were not as many arrowroot fields and tobacco fields as there were cotton fields."
A Troubled Childhood
Young Kincaid attended government schools on Antigua. As a student, she was considered a bright troublemaker. "I was sullen," she recalled to Garis. "I was always being accused of being rude, because I gave some back chat. I moved very slowly. I was never where I should be.
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