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...part of an effort to boost the size and diversity of the Afro-American Studies faculty, author Jamaica Kincaid and jazz musician and composer Anthony Davis will come to Harvard next year as visiting professors, department chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. said yesterday...
...Kincaid, author of At The Bottom of the River and Lucy, will teach for both the English Department and the Afro-American Studies Department, said Gates, who is DuBois professor of the humanities. Davis, who composed the opera "X" about the life and times of Malcolm X, will teach for the Music Department and the Afro-American Studies Department, Gates said...
Seven prominent writers appeared at the event, including Stephen King, author of Needful Things, Carrie, Misery and several other popular horror novels; Jonathan Kozol, author of Rachel and Her Children and Savage Inequalities), John Edgar Wideman, author of Philadelphia Fire, and Jamaica Kincaid, author of Lucy...
...Kincaid read a portion of one of her books after overcoming her speechlessness following Wideman's reading. She finally shrugged her shoulders and said, "I feel so shallow after that...I'll just read this very quickly." Despite her disclaimers, the audience was very receptive to her presentation...
...rained all night and there was no sign of it stopping," Kincaid said. "It was a huge display of ineptitude by the Ivy League coaches...