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Jesmyn Ward
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1977
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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About Jesmyn Ward
Birth
1977
First book
2011
Years writing
15
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.
Jesmyn Ward is an acclaimed American writer born in Mississippi in 1977.
Her work deeply explores essential themes such as race relations and the African American experience.
Beyond her role as a novelist and autobiographer, she is also a dedicated university professor.
Among her most notable titles are Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones.
With a prolific career, she has published a total of 23 works that portray the reality of the United States.
