Edward P. Jones
Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) 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).Journalist Neely Tucker described Jones in ''The Washington Post'' as "arguably the greatest fiction writer the nation's capital has ever produced". According to biographer Diane Brady of ''Fortune'', Jones has been recognized as "as one of the finest writers of his generation". He has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the University of Maryland, and Princeton University. In 2010, Jones became a professor of literature at George Washington University, where he was previously the Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature. Provided by Wikipedia
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