- Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones is an
African American author and winner of thePulitzer Prize for Fiction . Born in 1951, he was raised inWashington, D.C. and educated at both theCollege of the Holy Cross and theUniversity of Virginia .He won both the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Lannan Foundation Grant for his first book, "
Lost in the City ", a collection of short stories on the African Americanworking class of the 20th century Washington, D.C. It was also shortlisted for theNational Book Award .His second book, "
The Known World ", is a richly imagined novel set before the Civil War inVirginia . It examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites. A book with many points of view, "The Known World" paints an enormous canvas thick with personalities and situations that show howslavery destroys but can also be transcended. It was also a National Book Award finalist and subsequently won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2005International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award . In 2005 Mr. Jones was awarded aMacArthur Fellowship .Jones's third book, "
All Aunt Hagar's Children ", was published in 2006. Like "Lost in the City ", it is a collection of short stories that deal with the African Americans revolving around Washington, D.C. Several of the stories had been previously published in "The New Yorker " magazine. The stories in Hagar take up the lives of ancillary characters in Lost in the City.Bibliography
* "Lost in the City" (1992)
* "The Known World " (2003)
* "All Aunt Hagar's Children " (2006)External links
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authorintro/index.asp?authorid=5002 Official page]
* [http://www.harpers.org/ballad-for-americans.html An essay on Jones's work byWyatt Mason ]
* [http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum138.php Identity Theory interview]
* [http://www.hackwriters.com/lostcity.htm Review of Lost in the City]
* [http://www.the-ledge.com/flash/ledge.php?conversation=40&lan=UK Interview on The Ledge] , an independent platform for world literature. Includes audio and excerpt.
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