Novelist, Short Story Writer Edward P. Jones in 2005

Edward P. Jones won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Known World (2003). Set in the American South before the Civil War, the novel tells the morally complex tale of a free Black farming family that owns Black slaves. Hailed by critics as a new American classic, the novel also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Jones is also the winner of a 2004 MacArthur "Genius Grant." His book, Lost in the City (1992), is a collection of stories about African-American men and women living and working in the nation's capital. The collection received the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a National Book Award finalist. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Essence, and Ploughshares, among other publications.

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Genius

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One of the greatest living American writers exclusively read comic books until he was 13.

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