Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an Antiguan novelist. She currently lives in Vermont with her husband, Allen Shawn, the son of The New Yorker's longtime editor William Shawn.

Works

• Girl (1978)
• At the Bottom of the River (1983)
• Annie John (1985)
• A Small Place (1988)
• Lucy (1990)
• On Seeing England for the First Time, essay (1991, appeared in Harper's Magazine)
• The Autobiography of My Mother (1995)
• My Brother (1997)
• My Favorite Plant (editor; 1998)
• My Garden (1999)
• Talk Stories (2000)
• Mr. Potter (2002)