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Tayari Jones
Writing An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow.
Leaving Atlanta · Silver Sparrow
- Born
- 30 November 1970
- Birthplace
- Atlanta
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Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is an American novelist whose fiction examines family relationships, injustice and life in the American South.
Early life
Atlanta and study
Grew up in Atlanta and studied at Spelman, Iowa and Arizona State, completing her MFA in 2000.
Career
- 2002
Debut novel
Published Leaving Atlanta.
- 2011
Third novel
Published Silver Sparrow.
- 2018
An American Marriage
Published her fourth novel.
- 2019
Women’s Prize
Won the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Selected work
Leaving Atlanta
A childhood story set against the Atlanta child murders.
Silver Sparrow
A novel shaped around the concealed relationships within a family.
An American Marriage
A marriage is disrupted by a wrongful conviction.
Beyond work
Family background
Her parents were academics who had participated in the civil-rights movement.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Biographical references ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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