Edward P. Jones



Edward P. Jones

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gender male
place of birth United States
genre Literature & Fiction

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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.

books by Edward P. Jones

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avg rating: 3.85 | 3791 ratings | 4 distinct works
The Known World The Known World (Paperback)
by Edward P. Jones
avg rating 3.83 — 2779 ratings — published 2003
14 editions
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Lost in the City Lost in the City (Paperback)
by Edward P. Jones
avg rating 4.14 — 287 ratings — published 1992
4 editions
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Sto... All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories (Hardcover)
by Edward P. Jones
avg rating 3.79 — 232 ratings — published 2006
8 editions
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Being a Black Man: At the Corn... Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril (Paperback)
by Edward P. Jones
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 2007
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"(Her husband's departure ...)had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From "Butterfly on F street""
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"We are all worthy of one another."
Edward P. Jones (The Known World)
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"We are all worthy of one another."
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