Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the ...

Edward P. Jones’s characters know that everything they’ ve ... “The First Day” ends with a child in school, but the next story begins with a teenager playing hooky.

Edward P. Jones is still batting a thousand, which is every bit as difficult for a writer as it is a baseball player. The 53-year-old writer from the Washington, D.C., area has published just two ...

Edward P. Jones, who ended a 10-year absence from publishing with his acclaimed novel “The Known World,” won the fiction prize Thursday night from the National Book Critics Circle.

On the evening of October 1, faculty and students joined Professor Stephanie Watts, director of creative writing, in welcoming Edward P. Jones at Zoellner Auditorium.

Edward P. Jones won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for "The Known World," inspired by Jones ... shy and even uncomfortable at first, ... as well as one-day visits by such notables ...

All Aunt Hagar’s Children By Edward P. Jones Amistad/HarperCollins, 399 pages, $25.95 Edward P. Jones has had one of those exceptional literary careers that’s pleasurable for everyone but the ...

A.O. Scott, The Times’s co-chief film critic, returns to the Book Review’s podcast this week to discuss the work of Edward P. Jones, the second subject in Scott’s essay series The Americans ...