Edward P. Jones

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Washington, District of Columbia, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories

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Edward P. Jones has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004, and his first collection of short stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short-listed for the National Book Award. His most recent collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children, has become a bestseller.

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Average rating: 3.78 · 16,729 ratings · 2,153 reviews · 9 distinct works

	The Known World 3.75 avg rating — 13,950 ratings — published 2003 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Lost in the City 4.04 avg rating — 912 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions	My rating:
	All Aunt Hagar's Children 3.76 avg rating — 807 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	My rating:
	New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007 by Edward P. Jones (Editor), Allan Gurganus (Contributor), James Lee Burke (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones, Peter Francis James (Reading) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Lost in the City - 20th anniversary edition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Known World 20pk RGG 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones, Peter Francis James (Reading) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright, Edward P. Jones 3.87 avg rating — 13,151 ratings — published 1945 — 40 editions	My rating:
	Contemporary Fiction 50 Short Stories Since 1970 by Lex Williford (Editor), Michael Martone (Editor), Charles Baxter (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1999	My rating:

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“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

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“A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

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“Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

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