Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat:

1.  Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer.

2.  She was born in 1969.

3.  She has a younger brother.

4.  She is religious

5.  She can speak Haitian Creole, English, and French.

6.  She began writing at nine years old.

7.  She moved to Brooklyn, New York, to join her parents when she was 12 years old.

8.  When she was two years old, her father immigrated to New York, so she and her brother were raised in uncle and aunt's house.

9.  She fought discrimination, and most her books talk about the national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics.

10.  She has a website.  On the website, she is selling her new book, which is called "The Art of Death".  In her introduction of the book, "It is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work."  I would love to read it after applying to college.

11.  She said, "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses."   I am impressed, and I'd love to borrow this sentence one day.