Jesmyn Ward
Auteur de Le chant des revenants
A propos de l'auteur
Jesmyn Ward was born in DeLisle, Mississippi in 1977. She became a writer after the death of her brother by a drunk driver. She received a MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Her books include the novel Where the Line Bleeds, the memoir Men We Reaped, and the nonfiction work afficher plus The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. Salvage the Bones won the National Book Award in Fiction in 2011 and an Alex Award in 2012. Sing, Unburied, Sing won the National Book Award in Fiction in 2017. She taught at University of New Orleans, the University of South Alabama, and Tulane University. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Jesmyn Ward
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016) — Directeur de publication — 853 exemplaires
Cattle Haul 3 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (2018) — Contributeur — 379 exemplaires
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributeur — 182 exemplaires
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1977-04-01
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- DeLisle, Mississippi, USA
- Études
- Stanford University
University of Michigan - Professions
- author
writer in residence
professor - Organisations
- University of South Alabama
Tulane University - Prix et distinctions
- MacArthur Fellowship (2017)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2022)
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Critiques
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Five star books (2)
Recommendations (3)
Best of 2017 (1)
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Climate Change (1)
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Black Authors (2)
The Zora Canon (2)
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Dead narrators (1)
AP Lit (1)
First Novels (1)
Book Club 2021 (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 9,844
- Popularité
- #2,426
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 489
- ISBN
- 145
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 11
The ending was a disappointment for me.