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Bookmark or Share- Jesmyn Ward - WikipediaJesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) [1] is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. [2] She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. [3]
- How Jesmyn Ward Is Reimagining Southern LiteratureWard’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...
- Best-Selling Novelist Jesmyn Ward on Life in Mississippi ...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 ...
- Jesmyn Ward (Author of Sing, Unburied, Sing) - GoodreadsJesmyn Ward is the author of Where the Line Bleeds, Salvage the Bones, and Men We Reaped. She is a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University) and Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University.
- Jesmyn Ward on Her Husband’s Death and Grief During COVID-19 ...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 .
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