![]() The stories of Jones' first and third book are connected. In 2007, it was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, which was won by Philip Roth's Everyman. The stories in the book take up the lives of ancillary characters in Lost in the City. Several of the stories had been previously published in The New Yorker magazine. Like Lost in the City, it is a collection of short stories that deal with African Americans, mostly in Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() Jones's third book, All Aunt Hagar's Children, was published in 2006. It won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International Dublin Literary Award. His second book, The Known World, was set in a fictional Virginia county and had a protagonist who was a Black planter and slaveholder. In the early stories are some who are like first-generation immigrants, as they have come to the city as part of the Great Migration from the rural South. His first book, Lost in the City (1992), is a collection of short stories about the African-American working class in 20th-century Washington, D.C. He was educated at Cardozo High School, the College of the Holy Cross, and the University of Virginia. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award.Įdward Paul Jones was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. ![]()
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