Trow eventually introduced her to William Shawn, the magazine's editor. She soon became friends with Scott Trow, who wrote the "Talk of the Town" column in the New Yorker. Ingenue published her first article, "When I was Seventeen," in the same year. After returning to New York in 1973, she changed her named to Jamaica Kincaid to be anonymous as she tried her hand at writing. Eventually, she won a scholarship to Franconia College in New Hampshire, but dropped out after two years. As she worked, Kincaid acquired her general equivalency diploma and started taking photography classes at the New School for Social Research. She remained with the Arlen family for four years. She stayed in Scarsdale for a few months, before moving to Manhattan to be an au pair for the family of Michael Arlen, a New Yorker writer. She left Antigua at age seventeen and moved to Scarsdale, New York to work as an au pair. After her father fell ill, however, Kincaid, as the girl in the family, dropped out at the age of thirteen. Kincaid won a scholarship to the Princess Margaret School and excelled as a student, despite her occasionally mischievous attitude. Jamaica Kincaid's mother taught her to read at the age of three. Annie and David Drew had three subsequent children, all boys. Kincaid considers Drew her father and he serves as the model for the fathers in each of her novels. Her mother, Annie, married her stepfather, David Drew, soon after Kincaid's birth. Her parents were not married and her biological father never played a role in her life.
She was originally named Elaine Potter Richardson. Annie John Context Jamaica Kincaid was born was born on at Holberton Hospital in St.
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