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Did You Know These 15 Trailblazers Are Non-Honorary Members Of Alpha Kappa Alpha?
EDWIDGE DANTICAT – Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Danticat grew up in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from the prestigious Barnard College with a Bachelor’s of Arts in French Literature. She later received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brown University in 1993.
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Her Master’s thesis, entitled “My turn in the fire – an abridged novel”,was the basis for her acclaimed novel Breath, Eyes, Memory. The author of 15 books, she has an Honorary Degree from Yale and was awarded the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2009.
