The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Edwidge Danticat

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Edwidge Danticat

03/10/2017

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2017.062

Author Edwidge Danticat (1969 - ) an award winning author of several novels, including Breath, Eyes, Memory and Claire of the Sea Light, and was the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Fellowship. Danticat was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 03/10/2017, in Miami, Florida. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 02m 15s

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Author Edwidge Danticat was born on January 19, 1969 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to André Danticat and Rose Danticat. In 1981, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she graduated from Clara Barton High School and received her B.A. degree in French literature from Barnard College in New York City in 1990; and her M.F.A. degree in creative writing from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1993. In 1983, at age fourteen, Danticat published her first writing in English, "A Haitian-American ...