Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Edward P. Jones Speaks at Kanbar Hall
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Edward P. Jones, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, comes to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco in conversation with V. Denise Bradley, Executive Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora. Jones is the acclaimed author of The Known World and a collection of short stories, Lost in the City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award.
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<p>Discover why Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post says the work of Edward P. Jones affirms “that the novel does matter, that it can still speak to us as nothing else can.” After a debut collection of short stories made him one of the most highly regarded writers in the country, Jones spent 11 years on The Known World, his Pulitzer Prize winning novel about black slave owners in the American South. The son of an illiterate dishwasher, Jones celebrates the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.</p>
<p>Edward P. Jones, the New York Times bestselling author, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of short stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short-listed for the National Book Award. He has taught fiction writing at a range of universities, including Princeton. He lives in Washington, D.C.</p>
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