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Black Writers: Andrea Lee and Jamaica Kincaid
February 5, 2003
Andrea Lee novelist, former staff writer, New Yorker
Jamaica Kincaid novelist, visiting lecturer, Harvard

Authors Andrea Lee, Interesting Women: Stories, Russian Journal; and Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John, At the Bottom of the River, Lucy, A Small Place, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, read from their work.

Culture & Identity | Literature & Philosophy
Andrea Lee | Authors | Jamaica Kincaid | African American | Profiles | Writing Process | Race
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Image of Interesting Women: Stories
Author: Andrea Lee
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Image of Russian Journal
Author: Andrea Lee
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Image of Lost Hearts in Italy: A Novel
Author: Andrea Lee
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 272 pages
Image of Sarah Phillips (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
Author: Andrea Lee
Publisher: Northeastern (1993)
Binding: Paperback, 144 pages
Image of Multiple Streams of Coaching Income
Author: Andrea J. Lee
Publisher: MP Press (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 325 pages
Image of Money, Meaning and Beyond
Author: Andrea J. Lee and Tina Forsyth
Publisher: MP Press (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 309 pages
Image of A Small Place
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
Image of Lucy: A Novel
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 176 pages
Image of Autobiography of My Mother
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Plume (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
Image of At the Bottom of the River
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
Image of Annie John
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Vintage Books (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 160 pages
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