Tayari Jones: 2018 National Book Festival
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Channel: Library of Congress · 2018 · Education
Tayari Jones discusses "An American Marriage" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Tayari Jones had a spectacular debut with her first novel, "Leaving Atlanta," which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She wrote the novel while she was a graduate student. Her second novel, "The Untelling," is also set in Atlanta and received the Lillian Smith Book Award. Her new novel, "An American Marriage" (Algonquin), was a pick of Oprah's Book Club. Jones is an MFA faculty member at Rutgers University and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8435
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