Edwidge Danticat
Writer/Narrator
orn in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat moved to the U.S. when she was twelve. She is the author of several books, including 2007 Books Critics Circle Award winning Brother, I’m Dying; Oprah Book Club selection Breath, Eyes, Memory; National Book Award finalist Krik? Krak!; American Book Award winner The Farming of Bones; After the Dance, and The Dew Breaker. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures. Danticat earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University.
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