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: 3.81 · 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	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in the City 4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,170 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Aunt Hagar's Children 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 991 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007 by Edward P. Jones (Editor), Allan Gurganus (Contributor), James Lee Burke (Contributor) 3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story by Richard Ford (Editor), Eudora Welty (Contributor), Andre Dubus (Contributor) 3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor), Christopher R. Beha (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.C. Boyle (Contributor) 4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2008	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright, Edward P. Jones 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 19,929 ratings — published 1945 — 52 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 by Lex Williford (Editor), Michael Martone (Editor), Charles Baxter 4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones (Foreword) 4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 3,132 ratings — published 1955 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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.”
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“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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