Edward paul jones biography

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    Jones, Edward P. 1950–

    Writer

    Lost in the City Debuted

    Novel Required Long Gestation

    Novel Earned Accolades

    Selected writings

    Sources

    In 1992 Edward P. Jones burst on the literary scene with his much-hailed collection of short stories Lost in the City, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Then after a decade-long silence, Jones published his first novel, The Known World. Initially catching reviewers’ attention for its unusual subject matter—the ownership of slaves by a black master in the antebellum South—the novel soon demonstrated its literary qualities as well. Reviewers lauded Jones for the novel’s epic grandeur, vernacular and lyrical prose, fully realized characters, and lively dialogue. Comparing Jones favorably with William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, several critics went so far as to dub Jones a major new force in Southern writing. For The Known World Jones earned a second National Book Award nomination in 2003, though t

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    Edward P. Jones

    Black Boy
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    4.09 avg rating — 54,824 ratings — published 1945 — 274 editions
    The Known World
    3.84 avg rating — 43,487 ratings — published 2003 — 85 editions
    Notes of a Native Son
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    4.37 avg rating — 22,466 ratings — published 1955 — 85 editions
    Lost in the City
    4.07 avg rating — 3,441 ratings — published 1992 — 21 editions
    All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
    3.82 avg rating — 2,288 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
    New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007
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    3.78 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
    A Dark Night
    3.38 avg rating — 58 ratings
    Old Boys, Old Girls
    2.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
    Bad Neighbors
    3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
    The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners
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    Jones, Edward P

    Author and professor

    Born Edward Paul Jones, October 5, 1950, in Arlington, VA. Education: Holy Cross College, BA, 1972; University of Virginia, MFA, 1981.

    Addresses:Home—4300 Old Dominion Dr., No. 914, Arlington, VA 22207.

    Career

    Worked for Science magazine; worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science; sold his first story to Essence, 1975; columnist and proofreader for Tax Notes, 1990-2002; author, 1992—; guest instructor at George Washington University, University of Maryland, and Princeton University, 2000s.

    Awards: National Book Foundation Award, for Lost in the City, 1992; Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, for Lost in the City, 1992; grant, Lannan Foundation; grant, National Endowment for the Arts; National Book Critics Circle for The Known World, 2004; pris Prize for fiction, for The Known World, 2004.

    Sidelights

    In 1992 Edward P. Jones burst on the literary scene with his much-hailed collection o