Jo Ann Beard





Jo Ann Beard

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Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.


Average rating: 3.78 · 3,916 ratings · 760 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors
In Zanesville
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 2,228 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
The Boys of My Youth
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 1,550 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
"The Fourth State of Matter"
4.86 of 5 stars 4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1996
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions

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“We sit silently in our living room. He watches the mute television screen and I watch him. The planes and ridges of his face are more familiar to me than my own. I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.”
Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth

“Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.”
Jo Ann Beard

“...within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.”
Jo Ann Beard, In Zanesville



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