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    Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship...
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  • Salvage the Bones is the second novel by American author Jesmyn Ward and published by Bloomsbury in 2011. The novel explores the plight of a working-class...
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  • Sing, Unburied, Sing is the third novel by the American author Jesmyn Ward and published by Scribner in 2017. It focuses on a family in the fictional...
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  • David. "Jesmyn Ward Wins National Book Award for 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'". The New York Times. Retrieved December 13, 2018. Begley, Sarah. "Jesmyn Ward, Heir...
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  • by the African-American writer Jesmyn Ward. The book was published by Bloomsbury in 2013. The memoir focuses on Ward's own personal history and the deaths...
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  • Bleeds is the debut novel by American writer Jesmyn Ward. It was published in 2008 by Agate Publishing. Ward needed help finding a publisher for the novel...
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  • Race is an essay and poetry collection edited by the American author Jesmyn Ward and published by Scribner in 2016. The title, The Fire This Time, alludes...
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  • more than once include William Faulkner, John Updike, William Gaddis, Jesmyn Ward, and Philip Roth, each having won on two occasions along with numerous...
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  • Wright Morris, 1957, 1981 Philip Roth, 1960, 1995 John Updike, 1964, 1982 Jesmyn Ward, 2011, 2017 Peter Mathiessen, 2008 and The Snow Leopard, two nonfiction...
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  • guest editor and two-time National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward. Pitlor, Heidi and Ward, Jesmyn (editors), The Best American Short Stories 2021 Houghton...
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  • Welty, while modern writers include John Grisham, Natasha Trethewey, Jesmyn Ward, and Michael Farris Smith. Beginning from statehood in 1817, Mississippi...
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  • "Trouble the Water", fiction by Barry Jenkins "Sold South", fiction by Jesmyn Ward "Capitalism" by Matthew Desmond "Fort Mose", poem by Tyehimba Jess "Before...
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    Says I Love You John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) Alice Walker (b. 1944) Jesmyn Ward (b. 1977) Eudora Welty (1909–2001) Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) Thomas...
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  • McCann (2009) Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (2010) Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011) The Round House by Louise Erdrich (2012) The Good Lord Bird by...
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    Jeremy Ward (disambiguation), multiple people Jerry Ward (disambiguation), multiple people Jesmyn Ward (born 1977), American novelist Jessie Ward (born...
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    the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Barry Jenkins on Gabriel's Rebellion Jesmyn Ward on the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Tyehimba Jess on Black Seminoles...
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    2019. "Millsaps announces honorary degree recipients: Jon Meacham, Jesmyn Ward, Dr. Lamar Weems". Mississippi Today. May 2, 2019. Retrieved March 18...
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    Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016), edited by Jesmyn Ward. Smith's second book, How the Word Is Passed, was published by Little...
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  • Beulah Mae Donald, Civil Rights activist Matteo Martinolich, shipbuilder Jesmyn Ward, author; recipient of the 2011 and the 2017 National Book Awards for...
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  • Lola Akinmade Åkerström House of Eve – Sadeqa Johnson Let Us Descend – Jesmyn Ward The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store – James McBride The New Brownies’...
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  • opera director Tyshawn Sorey, composer Gabriel Victora, immunologist Jesmyn Ward, writer Matthew Aucoin, composer and conductor Julie Ault, artist and...
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    Preceded by Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward National Book Award for Fiction 2012 Succeeded by The Good Lord Bird James McBride...
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    2017). "MacArthur 'genius grants' go to novelists Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jesmyn Ward". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 9, 2023. Retrieved...
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  • Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties Alice McDermott The Ninth Hour Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing 2018 Ling Ma Severance Naima Coster Halsey Street...
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    Invisible Furies Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Jesmyn Ward – Sing, Unburied, Sing Celeste Ng – Little Fires Everywhere Ruth Emmie...
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  • When I hit you: or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife Finalist Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing Finalist 2019 Tayari Jones An American Marriage...
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    and politician Robin Roberts, ABC News' Good Morning America anchor Jesmyn Ward, novelist, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction; born in...
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    Olympia Vernon, Jill McCorkle, Andrew Hudgins, Maurice Manning, and Jesmyn Ward. Black Warrior Review — Published by University of Alabama Georgia Review...
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  • The Covenant of Water September 2023 Nathan Hill Wellness October 2023 Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend February 2024 Lara Love Hardin The Many Lives of Mama...
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    McCann (2009) Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (2010) Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011) The Round House by Louise Erdrich (2012) The Good Lord Bird by...
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