# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jamaica-kincaid
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:48:46.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jamaica-kincaid"
name: "Jamaica Kincaid"
slug: "jamaica-kincaid"
description: "Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. Born in St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, she lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence Emerita at Harvard University."
tagline: "Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jamaica_Kincaid_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-05-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.636844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump