VJ Books Features Author Edwidge Danticat!
 Edwidge Danticat was born (January 19, 1969) in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University.
She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures.
Danticat is a 2009 recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant.
She lives in Miami with her husband and daughters.
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Edwidge Danticat Bibliography
Novels
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Breath, Eyes, Memory - 1994
- The Farming of Bones - 1998
- The Dew Breaker - 2004
Collections
Picture Books
Anthologies Edited
Non-Fiction
- Haiti: A Slave Revolution - 1995 - with Ramsey Clark, Frederick Douglass, Ben Dupuy and Paul Laraque
- After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Haiti - 2002
- Behind the Mountains: The Diary of Celiane Esperance - 2002
- Anacaona, Golden Flower - 2005
- Brother, I'm Dying - 2007
- Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work - 2010
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