Edward
P. Jones

Edward P. Jones won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award for his debut collection of stories, Lost in the City.

The Known World, his first novel, won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Edward P. Jones won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award for his debut collection of stories, Lost in the City.

The Known World, his first novel, won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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