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Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones

Edward P. Jones is the recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a Lannan Foundation Grant, the 2004 National Book Critics Circle’s fiction prize and the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His first short story was published in Essence in 1976, and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares and Callaloo. His first book, Lost in the City (1992), a collection of short stories, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent work is the award-winning novel The Known World (HarperCollins, 2003). He lives in Arlington, Va.

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