Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Jamaica Kincaid left Antigua for the United States at age 17 to work as an au pair. Kincaid said she was "really a servant." (Source)
Kincaid's often quoted version of "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." (Source)
November 1, 1981 is the day Antigua and Barbuda gained independence from the British. (Source)
Kincaid's first book At the Bottom of the River (1983) started as a fictional piece originally published in The New Yorker in 1978. (Source)