Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Danticat worked with Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme to produce The Agronomist, which won best documentary at the Gotham Awards in 2004. Take that, Batman. (Source)
Danticat has acted in four films, including a role in the adaptation of Toni Morrison's Beloved. You know, just so she has something to fall back on. (Source)
Not everyone is crazy about Danticat's use of her life in Haiti as a springboard for her fiction—including some Haitians. But Danticat took on the negativity by writing a new book about the creative process. Bam. (Source)