Edwidge Danticat Research Paper

The world renowned Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat was known for many of her great writings over the years. Including but not limited to novels and short stories. Danticat was born on January 19, 1969 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Andre and Rose Danticat. Her parents immigrated to the United States when she was only four years old. While her parents were away Danticat and her younger brother stayed in Haiti under the custody of their aunt and uncle.
It wasn’t until she was twelve years old that her and her younger brother would be reunited with their parents in Brooklyn, New York. Danticat’s formal education was in French, but while at home she spoke creole and started writing at the age of nine years old. After moving to America she found it difficult to adjust and turned to literature for comfort. She believed that writing was her way to express her deep thoughts and to relate as well keep up with her ancestors.
By the time she was fourteen years old, Edwidge wrote and published her first writings in English titled “ A Haitian Christmas:Cremance and Creole Theatre followed by A World Full of Strangers” in a citywide magazine written by teenagers.
Edwidge graduated high school from Clara
In addition, mostly all of her characters were of Haitian decent. This is not surprising because she is of Haitian decent herself. In one of her short stories “New York Day Women” it takes place in none other than New York. A place where she not only migrated to after her and her brother moved from Haiti, but also where she earned her high school diploma and Bachelor’s degree. In “New York Day Women” a young woman stays in Brooklyn, New York but commutes to Manhattan where she works at an advertising firm. Her mother is a day woman who is pretty much is a stay at home mother. This is very similar to what Edwidge’s mother was like back in Haiti and also in