Her At the bottom of the river, c1983: CIP t.p. (Jamaica Kincaid)

Ferguson, M. Jamaica Kincaid, 1994: CIP chronology (b. Elaine Potter Richardson, May 25, 1949 in Antigua; 1973, changes name to Jamaica Kincaid)

African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Kincaid, Jamaica; novelist, travel writer, journalist; born 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda; in 1965, left Antigua for the United States; worked as an au pair in New York; took classes at Westchester Community College in White Plains, New York, and then later at Franconia College in New Hampshire; found a job with Art Direction magazine; her first published work of fiction "Girl" appeared in the New Yorker in 1977; In the early twenty-first century, she was a visiting lecturer in African and African American Studies and in English and American Literature at Harvard University)

Kincaid, Jamaica. The autobiography of my mother, 2013: unnum. prelim. p. (Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. She lives with her family in Vermont)