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An American Marriage Selected for 2018 Favorites of Favorites LibraryReads List
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2018 Favorites of Favorites LibraryReads List. Representing the books librarians loved recommending most this year, librarian Jennifer Alexander from the...
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An American Marriage Selected for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist. Comprised of eleven novels, five short-story collections, and thirteen overall literary debuts, final-round...
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An American Marriage Selected for The New York Times’ and The Washington...
An American Marriage has been selected by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post as one of the most notable works of fiction of 2018. An American Marriage sits as top selections on...
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An American Marriage Named 2018 Book of the Year by Apple Books
An American Marriage has been selected as the 2018 Book of the Year by Apple Books. In their review, Apple Books writes, “This may be the most moving love-triangle story we’ve ever read… Tayari Jones...
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An American Marriage Selected for 2019 Black Caucus American Library...
An American Marriage has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Black Caucus American Library Association Literary Award for Fiction. The Black Caucus American Library Association recognizes...
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An American Marriage Nominated for 2019 NAACP Image Award
An American Marriage has been nominated for the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction. The NAACP Image Awards celebrate outstanding contributions by people of color in film,...
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Tayari Jones selected for 2019 Simpson Family Literary Prize Longlist
Tayari Jones has been selected for the 2019 Simpson Family Literary Prize Longlist. Longlist candidates are selected from official submissions by agents, authors, publishers, and author...
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An American Marriage Selected as Finalist for Los Angeles Times Book Prize
An American Marriage has been selected as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Alongside The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize is presented “as part of...
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An American Marriage Selected as 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
An American Marriage has been selected as a finalist for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize. The Aspen Words Literary Prize celebrates “an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital...
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Tayari Jones Named Author Ambassador for Independent Bookstore Day
Tayari Jones has been named the official Author Ambassador for 2019’s Independent Bookstore Day. Now in its fifth year, Independent Bookstore Day celebrates the outstanding contributions independent...
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An American Marriage Selected for 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist. Formerly known as The Orange Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction “celebrates...
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An American Marriage & Tayari Jones Nominated for 2019 Indies Choice Book of...
The American Booksellers Association has respectively nominated both An American Marriage and Tayari Jones for the 2019 Indies Choice Book of the Year Award (Fiction), and the Indies Champion Award....
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An American Marriage longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction
Longlists for four 2019 Orwell Prizes were announced today, including the inaugural Orwell Prize for Political Fiction sponsored by Richard Blair and A. M. Heath, and Orwell Prize for Political...
View ArticleTayari Jones: A. D. White Professor At Large, Cornell University
Tayari Jones has been selected as a Andrew D White Professor-At-Large at Cornell University. She will serve from 2019-2025. In 1965, the Cornell faculty unanimously recommended, and the Board of...
View ArticleJones Joins A. A. Knopf for her Fifth Novel
Alfred A. Knopf has acquired world rights to a new novel by Tayari Jones, the bestselling author of An American Marriage, her critically acclaimed fourth book. The new novel, OLD FOURTH WARD, will be...
View ArticleJones Awarded Charles Howard Candler Professorship at Emory University
The Charles Howard Candler Professorships are awarded to senior scholars who have shown outstanding teaching ability and productive scholarship in one or more fields of learning, and additionally who...
View ArticleBill Gates Chooses An American Marriage
Bill Gates has selected An American Marriage for his favorite books of 2019. “An American Marriage is a deeply moving read about how one incident of injustice reshapes the lives of a black couple in...
View ArticleTayari Jones Wins 2019 Clara Johnson Award
The winner of the 2019 Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature is Tayari Jones for her bestselling tour de force An American Marriage. The award was established in 2018 to honor women-authored...
View ArticleAn American Marriage Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award
An American Marriage is longlisted for the 2020 International DUBLIN Literary Award. Books are nominated for the Award by invited public libraries in cities throughout the world – making the Award...
View ArticleSilver Sparrow Published in the U.K.
Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones’s 2011 novel, has been printed in the U.K. by Oneworld. According to The Guardian, “This book is as moving, intimate and wise as An American Marriage on the topics of...
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