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<P>A comprehensive survey of the works of an acclaimed African American writer</P><P>In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones has made that city and its African American community the subject of or background for most of his fiction. </P><P>Though Jones's first work was published in 1976, his career developed slowly. While he worked for two decades as a proofreader and abstractor, Jones published short fiction in such periodicals as Essence, the New Yorker, and Paris Review. His first collection, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and subsequent books, including The Known World and All Aunt Hagar's Children, received similar accolades, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.</P><P>Following an overview of Jones's life, influences, and career, Coleman provides an introduction to the technique of Jones's fiction, which he likens to a tapestry, woven of intricate, varied, and sometimes disparate elements. He then analyzes the formal structure, themes, and characters of The Kn

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Author

Coleman, James Wilmouth;Jones, Edward P.;Jones, Edward P

Publisher

The University of South Carolina Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611176445

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History

Updated

2026-03-24