Author

Books by Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in poverty, moving frequently as a child. He is the author of two story collections, Lost in the City (1992) and All Aunt Hagar's Children (2006), and the novel The Known World (2003), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He teaches at George Washington University. He is known for his slow, meticulous prose style and his work's deep engagement with Black life in Washington and the antebellum South.