Jesmyn Ward
1977 – present · b. Berkeley
United States
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Biography
Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.
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Awards
- Time 100 (2018)No list
- National Book Award (2017)
- MacArthur Fellows Program (2017)No list
- Heartland Prize (2014)No list
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (2012)No list
- National Book Award (2011)
Notable Works
- Salvage the Bones
- Sing, Unburied, Sing
- Men We Reaped
Education
- Stanford University
- University of Michigan
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