Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer, best known for her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, published in 1994 and chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Her other books include the short story collections Krik? Krak! and Everything Inside, the novels The Dew Breaker and The Farming of Bones, and the memoir Brother, I'm Dying. Her writing often turns to national identity, mother-daughter relationships, and diasporic politics, and in 2023 Danticat was named the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.