Amy Wilentz is an American journalist and writer who has written extensively on Haiti. The collection consists of one audio and five video recordings related to the government and politics of Haiti, specifically surrounding the Haitian general elections of 1990-1991 and Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president.
Amy Wilentz is an American journalist and writer who has written extensively on Haiti. Wilentz has followed events in Haiti for many years, from the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986, to the 2010 earthquake, and the death of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 2014. The collection is related to her research on Haiti. Wilentz received a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti, as well as a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction. She has also authored The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier (1990), Martyrs' Crossing (2000), and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (2006). Since 2006, she has been a professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches in the Literary Journalism program.
The Amy Wilentz Haiti material audio and moving image collection consists of one audio and five video recordings. They are arranged chronologically. The video recordings include the film Haitian Pilgrimage, and recordings related to the government and politics of Haiti, specifically surrounding the Haitian general elections of 1990-1991 and Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president. Unless otherwise indicated, the items are in English.
Gift of Amy Wilentz, 1999.
Collection inventoried by Nathan Evans. Collection processed and described by Ornella U. Baganizi, archivist; and Shola Lynch, curator. Finding aid published in 2024.
See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Amy Wilentz Haiti material 1920-1994 [bulk 1986-1994], Sc MG 664.