(1977-04-01) April 1, 1977 (age 47) DeLisle, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation
Writer, professor
Language
English
Alma mater
Stanford University (BA, MA)
University of Michigan (MFA)
Genres
Fiction, memoir
Notable works
Salvage the Bones
The Fire This Time (ed.)
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Notable awards
National Book Award for Fiction (2011, 2017)
MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship (2017)
Website
jesmimi.blogspot.com
Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977)[1] is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities.[2] She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones and won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.[3][4][5] She also received a 2012 Alex Award[6] for the story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina.[7] She is the only woman and only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice.[8] All of Ward's first three novels are set in the fictitious Mississippi town of Bois Sauvage. In her fourth novel, Let Us Descend, the main character Annis, perhaps inhabits an earlier Bois Sauvage when she is taken shackled from the Carolina coast and put to work on a Mississippi sugar plantation near New Orleans.
^Ward, Jesmyn (September 16, 2014). Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Paperback ed.). New York. p. 42. ISBN 978-1608197651. OCLC 869343489.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^"Jesmyn Ward, School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University". School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
^"National Book Awards – 2011" Archived November 21, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
^Kellogg, Carolyn (November 17, 2011). "Jesmyn Ward wins National Book Award for fiction". Los Angeles Times.
^Cite error: The named reference National Book Foundation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Angela Carstensen (January 24, 2012). "The Alex Awards, 2012" Archived January 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, School Library Journal.
^Jeffrey Brown (August 26, 2011). "In 'Salvage the Bones,' Jesmyn Ward Tells Personal Story of Hurricane Katrina", PBS NewsHour.
^"Jesmyn Ward is the first woman to win two National Book Awards for Fiction". EW.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
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