Edward P. Jones
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Edward P. Jones

/ September 12, 2004 / The Known World

Jones’ got the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this first book that took him a decade to write, based on the little-known fact of black slave-owners in pre-Civil War Virginia. He concocted everything else from his imagination, with gorgeous writing, convincing antebellum dialogue, and a complex cast of characters with equally complex relationships. A tour de force book from a shy, brilliant man thrust suddenly into the spotlight.Listen Now

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