Jesmyn Ward
Or April 1977, Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel SALVAGE THE BONES and won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel SING, UNBURIED, SING. She also received a 2012 Alex Award for the story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She is the only woman and only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice. All three of Ward's novels are set in the fictitious Mississippi town of Bois Sauvage
Books by Jesmyn Ward
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Salvage The Bones
Authors: Jesmyn Ward
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"SALVAGE THE BONES is authentically written in ole south linguistics and is righteously bad ass." —Willie Earl Scott in SouthernDynasty.vip