Edward P. Jones

American novelist, short story writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1950 · age 76

Edward Paul Jones 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).

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2010PEN/Malamud AwardAward2006O. Henry AwardAward2004Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAwardPulitzer Prize for FictionAward2003National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionAward1993Hemingway Foundation/PEN AwardAward1950Born5 October 1950