Edward P. Jones | |
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| Born | October 5, 1950 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Education | College of the Holy Cross (BA) University of Virginia (MFA) |
| Genre | Narrative fiction |
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| Notable works | Lost in the City (1992) The Known World (2003) All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006) |
| Notable awards | PEN/Hemingway Award (1992) National Book Critics Circle Award (2003) Lannan Literary Award (2003) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2004) MacArthur Fellowship (2004) International Dublin Literary Award (2005) PEN/Faulkner Award (2007) PEN/Malamud Award (2010) |
Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. He became popular for writing about the African-American experience in the United States, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award for The Known World (2003).
Journalist Neely Tucker described Jones in The Washington Post as "arguably the greatest fiction writer the nation's capital has ever produced".[1] According to biographer Diane Brady of Fortune, Jones has been recognized "as one of the finest writers of his generation".[2] He has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the University of Maryland, and Princeton University. In 2010, Jones became a professor of literature at George Washington University, where he was previously the Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature.[3]
- ^ Tucker 2009, p. 14.
- ^ Brady 2012, p. 216.
- ^ "Award-Winning Author to Join GW | GW Today | The George Washington University". GW Today. Retrieved 2024-07-09.