American · b. 1951
Edward P. Jones won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Known World," a novel about Black slaveholders in antebellum Virginia. The American author spent a decade writing the book while working as a magazine assistant. His story collection "Lost in the City" established his territory: Washington, D.C., and its Black communities across history. Jones writes about slavery and its aftermath with moral complexity that refuses easy positions.