# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tayari-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:30:48.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tayari-jones"
name: "Tayari Jones"
slug: "tayari-jones"
description: "Tayari Jones is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City. Jones was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TayariJones.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970-11-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           12.062044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.tayarijones.com"
sources:
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    title: "Tayari Jones"
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    title: "Tayari Jones"
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    title: "Tayari Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tayari Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tayari Jones"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump