Jamaica Kincaid is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on May 25, 1949 in Barbados, Barbados. She and Jim Carroll both published their work in The Paris Review.
She was born Elaine Potter Richardson and changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid upon the publication of her first work. She married Allen Shawn, with whom she had two children: Harold and Annie.
She converted to Judaism.
