Jesmyn ward bio
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Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She fryst vatten the author of the novels Where the Line Bleedsand Salvage the Bones, which won the National Book Award, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the National Book Award. She fryst vatten also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Timeand the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From , Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the academic year. In , the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She received the prestigious MacArthur Fellows “Genius Grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Her book, Navigate Your Stars, fryst vatten based on her Tulane University commencement speech about the value of hard work and
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Jesmyn Ward
American writer
Jesmyn Ward | |
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| Born | () April 1, (age&#;47) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, professor |
| Language | English |
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| Genres | Fiction, memoir |
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Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, ) is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.
She is the only woman and only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice. 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 t
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Jesmyn Ward
Major Works
Fiction
Mississippi author Jesmyn Ward. Photographer is Tony Cook. Used by permission of Jesmyn Ward
- Sing, Unburied, Sing ()
- Men We Reaped () ( a memoir)
- Salvage the Bones ( National Book Award winner for fiction)
- Where the Line Bleeds ()
Non-fiction
Biography of Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward was born in in DeLisle, Mississippi. Her mother&#;s employer paid for her to attend a private school after she was bullied by black students at a public school. She earned a BA at Stanford University in and a Master&#;s degree in Ward earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan in
Her first book Where the Line Bleeds was written to remember her younger brother, who was killed by a drunk driver. She was the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and the Alex Award for her second novel Salvage the Bones.
She currently teaches at Tulane University, but previously was an assistant professor of Creative Writing at th