Tayari Jones (born November 30, 1970)[1] is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection,[2] and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction.[3] Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University,[4] and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City. Jones was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University[5] before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.[6]
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