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 · 2,449 ratings · 521 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Boys of My Youth
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In Zanesville: A Novel
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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

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

“The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over.”
Jo Ann Beard, In Zanesville: A Novel

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