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Speaking of Stories transforming
short stories from the page to the stage
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JAMAICA KINCAID Jamaica Kincaid (Girl): Jamaica Kincaid became a professional writer almost by accident. Living in New York City in the 1970s, she befriended one of the staff writers at the New Yorker and began to accompany him as he conducted research for the "Talk of the Town" section. Before long, she discovered that she could write and that her writing impressed the editors of the magazine. When her first piece of nonfiction was published, Kincaid remembers, "That is when I realized what my writing was. My writing was the thing I thought. Not something else. Just what I thought." After working as a staff writer at the New Yorker for four years, she began to turn to fiction. Girl is the first piece of fiction she published; it appeared in the New Yorker in 1978.
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