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Edward P. Jones

Author

Bio

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 Pen/Faulkner Award. He has been an instructor of fiction writing at a range of universities, including Princeton. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Edward P. Jones Books

Hue and Cry book cover

Hue and Cry

James Alan McPherson
Notes of a Native Son book cover

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin
Lost in the City book cover

Lost in the City

Edward P. Jones
All Aunt Hagar's Children book cover

All Aunt Hagar's Children

Edward P. Jones
The Known World book cover

The Known World

Edward P. Jones
D.C. Noir 2 book cover

D.C. Noir 2

George Pelecanos
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