Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. Wikipedia
Born: 1977 (age 47 years), Berkeley, CA
Awards: National Book Award for Fiction and MacArthur Fellowship
Alma mater: Stanford University (BA, MA); University of Michigan (MFA)
Notable works: Salvage the Bones; The Fire This Time (ed.); Sing, Unburied, Sing
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