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AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE: EW Cover Reveal
The cover of Tayari Jones’s new novel, An American Marriage, is revealed today on Entertainment Weekly. Read an excerpt.
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Tayari Jones Named Black Mountain Institute Bennet Fellow
The Diana L. Bennett Fellows Program at UNLV’s Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute (BMI) awards Tayari Jones a fellowship for the academic year 2017-18. She will be in residence...
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Tayari Jones Elected To The Boards of Directors of Two Arts Organizations
Tayari Jones has assumed exciting new roles in two arts organizations. Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) seeks to educate the imagination by offering innovative creative writing programs...
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Jones Elected to Georgia Authors Hall of Fame
Five authors comprise the 2018 class of Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductees: Michael Bishop, Tayari Jones and Cynthia Shearer will be admitted at the November ceremony; Furman Bisher and Frances...
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An American Marriage Chosen For Oprah’s Book Club
Oprah Winfrey chooses An American Marriage for 2018 Oprah’s Book Club.
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Tayari Jones Joins the Faculty of Emory University
Tayari Jones will join Emory University’s renowned Creative Writing Program this fall as a member of the English faculty in Emory College of Arts and Sciences. She will be on sabbatical for the fall...
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View ArticleSunny Hostin selects An American Marriage as The View’s Get Lit Pick
Sunny Hostin Reads From Novel "American Marriage" Listen to this captivating excerpt from the novel "American Marriage" by Tayari Jones — one of Sunny Hostin's favorite books this summer! Check out...
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An American Marriage Chosen for President Barack Obama’s 2018 Summer Reading...
An American Marriage has been chosen for President Barack Obama’s 2018 Summer Reading List. In a Facebook post, the President wrote: “One of my favorite parts of summer is deciding what to read when...
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An American Marriage selected for 2018 National Book Award Longlist
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2018 National Book Award Longlist for Fiction,. The longlist will be whittled down to a shortlist of five books, which will be announced Oct. 10. The...
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Tayari Jones Delivers Remarks at 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards
2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards Winners with guest speaker Tayari Jones at September 13th ceremony in New York City. (Front, L-R: Lisa Chen and Alison C. Rollins. Back, L-R: Lydia Conklin,...
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Tayari Jones In Conversation with The New York Times’ Race/Related Newsletter
Credit (From L to R): Erin Schaff for The New York Times, Associated Press Tayari Jones joins The New York Times‘ Lauretta Charlton for a conversation on Black Sisterhood, Anita Hill, and Christine...
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An American Marriage selected for 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist. A six-title shortlist (three fiction titles, three nonfiction titles,) will be announced on...
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Tayari Jones Selected for 2018 EBONY Power 100 List
Tayari Jones is honored to have been selected for Ebony Magazine’s 2018 EBONY Power 100 List. On the significance of this year’s honorees, Forbes writes, “[the list recognizes] and celebrate[s] the...
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An American Marriage Selected as Finalist for GoodReads’ 2018 GoodReads...
An American Marriage has been selected as a finalist for GoodReads’ 10th Annual GoodReads Choice Awards in the 2018 Best of Fiction Category. Voting is open until November 4th, and votes can be cast...
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Tayari Jones for TIME Magazine: “There’s Nothing Virtuous About Finding...
In an IDEAS essay for TIME Magazine, Tayari Jones discusses America’s current political moment, and the dangerous obsession behind a moral middle. On finding common ground in the wake of school...
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Tayari Jones for The New York Times: “In Praise of Ann Petry”
In an essay for The New York Times, Tayari Jones celebrates the luminary but oft-forgotten Ann Petry, who, as a black female author in 1946, sold over 1.5 million copies of her seminal novel, The...
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An American Marriage Selected by TIME Magazine as Best Fiction of 2018
An American Marraige has been selected by TIME Magazine as one of the best fiction books of 2018. Ranking third on their list of ten, TIME’s Lucy Feldman writes, “In Jones’ novel, Atlanta couple...
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