Edward P. Jones





Edward P. Jones

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Washington, District of Columbia, The United States
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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.


Average rating: 3.81 · 22,128 ratings · 2,601 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
The Known World
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 18,106 ratings — published 2003 — 26 editions
Lost in the City
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,170 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions
All Aunt Hagar's Children
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 991 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2008
Black Boy: A Record of Chil...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 19,929 ratings — published 1945 — 52 editions
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
Notes of a Native Son
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 3,132 ratings — published 1955 — 13 editions
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“We are all worthy of one another.”
Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“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

“The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.”
Edward P. Jones, The Known World

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