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About Edward P. Jones

Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. He became popular for writing about the African-American experience in the United States, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award for The Known World (2003).

Journalist Neely Tucker described Jones in The Washington Post as "arguably the greatest fiction writer the nation's capital has ever produced". According to biographer Diane Brady of Fortune, Jones has been recognized "as one of the finest writers of his generation". He has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the University of Maryland, and Princeton University. In 2010, Jones became a professor of literature at George Washington University, where he was previously the Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature.

Edward P. Jones writes about Fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Washington (d.c.), fiction, Washington (D.C.), and Fiction, general. Their best-known work is The Known World.

On FindMyTBR we track 7 books by Edward P. Jones, 7 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including All Aunt Hagar's Children, All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones: Stories by Edward P. Jones, and Die bekannte Welt. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.