Annie John Resources

Dwight Garner interviews Jamaica Kincaid for salon.com. Among other things, they discuss her childhood and why she resigned from her post at The New Yorker.

Jamaica Kincaid reveals she likes The Matrix and Eminem in this excerpt from an interview in The Believer magazine.

Jane Smiley publishes a review of the book in The Guardian in 2006.

This article, "Paradise With Snake," offers Patricia T. O'Conner's 1985 review of Annie John. The last paragraph includes insightful excerpts from a telephone interview with Jamaica Kincaid and the priceless gem: "my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me. I can't help but think it made me interested in myself as an object."

Take a look at this map of the Caribbean and the island of Antigua, Kincaid's birthplace.

This painting appears as the cover illustration of recent editions of Annie John. Kincaid chose to discuss this painting at the Smithsonian's American Pictures series and told the audience that it inspired her to write Annie John.

Jamaica Kincaid discusses her novel My Garden (1999), but this talk gives you a sense of her relationship to her work.

This is a very short clip of Jamaica Kincaid recalling the difficulties of being a young professional writer and how one makes a living as a writer.

Kincaid discusses her early writing for The New Yorker and reads from some of her early "talk stories."

Kincaid discusses, among other things, the reasons for her name change from Elaine Potter Richardson to Jamaica Kincaid.