M.J. Fievre’s love for writing began as a young girl in Haiti. When she was 13, she started working on her first book, Le Feu de la Vengeance (The Fire of Revenge), which tells the story of a girl who ...
It was just after the 2010 Haitian earthquake, and Ketsia Theodore-Pharel was feeling helpless. “I was devastated,” says the Miami-based author. “I wanted to go help Haiti.” Everyone around her had a ...
Just over a week after the earthquake that rocked southern Haiti, killing over 2,000 people, tumbling buildings, fissuring roads, it's difficult for me, as a native of Port-au-Prince, to piece ...
Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king reads like a historical novel of a bygone era with Black princes and knights, an elaborate dress code and a palace, Sans-Souci, to match.
Research for Bayard's "Triumph to Tragedy" five-book saga traces back to a Haitian ancestor from 1689 and explores Haiti from 1771 to 1845. Before gaining its independence, Haiti was known as ...