Edward P. Jones
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place of birth
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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The Known World by Edward P. Jones avg rating 3.77 — 5,682 ratings — published 2003 15 editions |
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Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones avg rating 4.11 — 471 ratings — published 1992 6 editions |
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones avg rating 3.76 — 447 ratings — published 2006 9 editions |
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New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2007 by Edward P. Jones avg rating 3.45 — 29 ratings — published 2007 2 editions |
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"[He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.'"
— Edward P. Jones (The Known World)
— 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)
— Edward P. Jones (The Known World)
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