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About Jesmyn Ward
American novelist and professor of English
Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She is known for her novels and for winning the National Book Award for Fiction twice. In 2011, she won the prize for Salvage the Bones, her second novel, which follows a family and their community as they face Hurricane Katrina. She won again in 2017 for Sing, Unburied, Sing. Her work is closely associated with family, community, and survival.
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Books by Jesmyn Ward
Salvage the Bones
2011
Sing, Unburied, Sing
2018
Men We Reaped
2014
Where the line bleeds
2008