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Edward P. Jones

Edward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. He became popular for writing about the African-American experience in the United States, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award for The Known World (2003).

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Books5

New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007

New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007

2007
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

2006
Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf

Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf

2003
The Known World

The Known World

2003
Lost in the City

Lost in the City

1992

Collections2

The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners

The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners

2025
D.C. Noir 2: The Classics

D.C. Noir 2: The Classics

2008

with Richard Wright and George Pelecanos