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- Edward P. Jones is a renowned American writer best known for The Known World (2003), which earned the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and for his collections Lost in the City (1990) and All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2001). [Britannica citation: Jones biography and awards; Pulitzer prize context] [National Book Foundation profile: summaries of his major works and awards].
Biographical snapshot
- Born October 5, 1950, in Washington, D.C. Jones has taught fiction writing at several universities and remains a central figure in contemporary American literature. [Britannica; National Book Foundation]
- Notable themes in his work include the African American experience, slavery’s legacy, and social dynamics of working-class communities. [Britannica; Britannica bio snippet]
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Edward P. Jones, the New York Times bestselling author, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short listed for the National Book Award. His second collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, was a finalist for the...
www.nationalbook.orgEdward P. Jones (born October 5, 1950, Washington, D.C., U.S.), American novelist and short-story writer whose works depict the effects of slavery in antebellum America and the lives of working-class African Americans. Jones attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and studied writing at the University of Virginia. He taught briefly, and […]
www.hurstonwright.orgEdward P. Jones 1950– Writer Lost in the City Debuted Novel Required Long Gestation Novel Earned Accolades Selected writings Sources In 1992 Edward P.
www.encyclopedia.comPart of CSMs Connections Literary Series Family is a strong underlining theme in the stories of Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jonesthe families into which we are born, the families that adopt …
news-archive.csmd.eduEdward P. Jones, American novelist and short-story writer whose works depict the effects of slavery in antebellum America and the lives of working-class African Americans. He won a Pulitzer Prize for The Known World (2003). Learn more about Jones’s life and career.
www.britannica.comListen to Edward P. Jones talk from a Portland Arts & Lectures event in 2005, hosted by Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon.
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