Upon graduating in 1993, she reworked her master’s thesis into her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory. She attended the prestigious and experimental Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing at Brown University. Danticat graduated from Clara Barton High School in Crown Heights, then attended Barnard College where she studied French Literature. At 12, Danticat moved to Brooklyn (much like Sophie in Breath Eyes Memory), where she coped with the teasing and bullying she faced at school by writing the story of her journey to New York-and her childhood in Haiti-for publications that featured writing by teens. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Edwidge Danticat was raised for several years by her aunt and uncle while her parents, André and Rose, immigrated to New York to begin laying the foundation for a new life for their family.
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