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Edward Jones

Edward Jones
Eminent Writer in Residence February and March 2010
MFA University of Virginia
 

 

Edward P. Jones was born in Washington DC in l950. He attended the local public schools and won a scholarship to Holy Cross College. Seven years after he graduated from college, he earned his M.F.A. at the University of Virginia.
 
After a series of jobs, he began working for a tax newsletter, first as a proof reader and then eventually as a columnist, the latter job he held for over ten years. During this time Jones kept on writing. His first short story was published in Essence in l976. Since then he has had stories published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares and Callaloo. He has taught creative writing at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the University of Maryland and Princeton University.
 
Edward Jones' first collection of Short Stories, Lost in the City, was published in l992 and won the PEN/Hemingway Award, was short-listed for the National Book Award and was the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Award.
 
Jones' first novel, THE KNOWN WORLD, published by Harpercollins Publishers in September 2003, received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In addition, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the international IMPAC Dublin Literary award and the Lannan Literary award. Edward P. Jones was named a MacArthur fellow for 2004.
 
The New York Times best-selling ALL AUNT HAGAR'S CHILDREN was originally published in September 2006.
 
Edward P. Jones lives in Washington, DC.