Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of five novels, including An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries. Her latest novel is Kin, which was also an Oprah’s Book Club selection and New York Times best seller. She was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta. 

Tayari Jones

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