Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities.

Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977, Oakland, California, U.S.) is one of the most acclaimed writers of the 21st century, publishing novels and nonfiction works that explore the lives of poor African Americans living in coastal Mississippi, all written in an …

Sep 1, 2020 · Jesmyn Ward is a two-time National Book Award winner for Fiction. In 2016, she edited the anthology The Fire This Time. See more from V.F. ’s THE GREAT FIRE project here .

Ward’s novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, was awarded a National Book Award for fiction in November of 2017. Her book Navigate Your Stars is based on her life. In January, 2020, Ward’s 33-year- old husband died of the coronavirus.

Nov 14, 2023 · Best-Selling Novelist Jesmyn Ward on Life in Mississippi, Love Through Grief, and Her New Novel The author—who won National Book Awards for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones —is out ...

Oct 13, 2023 · Ward’s work pours liquor out in the manner of the Black South, where “pouring out a little” celebrates and honors our dead, keeping them involved in our world, not to haunt but...

New York Times bestselling author and MacArthur “Genius” Jesmyn Ward is the first woman and first person of color to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice, for her novels Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones.

Jul 21, 2024 · Jesmyn Ward, an acclaimed American writer and an associate professor of English at Tulane University, was born in 1977, in DeLisle, Mississippi, the town where she grew up and where she now again lives.

Nov 22, 2023 · Ward is the only woman and the only African American who has won two National Book Awards for Fiction. “I am not worthy,” said Jesmyn Ward near the end of her author event with Margaret McMullan at Millsaps College in early November.

Jesmyn Ward is the only woman to have won the National Book Award for Fiction in America twice, most recently with her new novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing. She’s also a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and a New York Times bestselling author.