Women's History Month 2019: Edwidge Danticat MFA '93, Award-Winning Author
3/19/2019 9:48:00 AM | Diversity & Inclusion
Throughout the month of March, Brown Athletics will celebrate Women's History Month through a series of profiles. Over the course of the month, the Bears will recognize women who have made an impact on the university community and beyond.
Women's History Month 2019
Edwidge Danticat M.F.A '93, Award-Winning Author
Edwidge Danticat M.F.A. '93 is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously, and Claire of the Sea Light. Born in Haiti, she moved to Brooklyn, New York at the age of 12 and graduated from Barnard College in 1990 prior to earning a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brown in 1993. Her work centers on several themes, including national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. Danticat is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora [sic] in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, Haiti Noir, and Haiti Noir 2. She has written six books for children and young adults, Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, and Untwine, as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur fellow.
Women's History Month 2019
Edwidge Danticat M.F.A '93, Award-Winning Author
Edwidge Danticat M.F.A. '93 is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously, and Claire of the Sea Light. Born in Haiti, she moved to Brooklyn, New York at the age of 12 and graduated from Barnard College in 1990 prior to earning a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brown in 1993. Her work centers on several themes, including national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics. Danticat is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora [sic] in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, Haiti Noir, and Haiti Noir 2. She has written six books for children and young adults, Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, and Untwine, as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur fellow.
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