爱德华-P-琼斯 作家

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Edward P. Jones
Writer | Class of 2004
Composing multi-layered, lushly detailed tales that depict lives lived by African Americans in the twentieth century and in the long shadow of the antebellum South.

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Writer
Location
Arlington, Virginia
Age
53 at time of award
Area of Focus
Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
Published September 28, 2004
ABOUT EDWARD'S WORK
Edward P. Jones is a fiction writer who renders in story a mysterious incongruity of the human experience—how faith, dignity, and love often survive, and sometimes thrive, in the face of systemic adversity. His debut collection of fourteen short stories, Lost in the City (1992), deals with African American working class and underclass experiences in mid-twentieth-century, inner-city Washington, D.C. In a realistic and evocative style, Jones depicts characters that, despite the constant and unacknowledged despair of their existences, live rich, varied, and compelling lives. A multi-layered, historical novel, The Known World (2003), is Jones’s second major work. In this sprawling saga set in antebellum Virginia, Jones examines the world of free blacks who owned black slaves. Told from several different viewpoints in an intricate structure full of foreshadowing, he provides a broad view of the complex system of slavery, capturing the experience of those who suffered its deadening effects. Jones works painstakingly to compose artful, morally complicated fiction that challenges, provokes, and enriches.

BIOGRAPHY
Edward P. Jones received a B.A. (1972) from the College of the Holy Cross and an M.F.A. (1981) from the University of Virginia. He worked for Tax Notes, a trade publication (1983¬2002), and has held part-time teaching appointments at the University of Virginia, Princeton University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland. He is the author of two books as well as numerous stories that have appeared in highly regarded anthologies and in such publications as Essence, Ploughshares, Callaloo, and The New Yorker.



爱德华-P-琼斯
作家｜2004级
创作了多层次的、内容丰富的故事，描绘了非裔美国人在二十世纪以及在前贝勒时代南方的漫长阴影中的生活。

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标题
作家
地点
阿灵顿，弗吉尼亚
年龄
获奖时为53岁
重点领域
小说和非小说写作
发表于2004年9月28日
关于爱德华的作品
爱德华-P-琼斯是一位小说家，他在故事中演绎了人类经历中的一种神秘的不协调性--信仰、尊严和爱经常在系统性的逆境中生存，有时甚至茁壮成长。他的首部短篇小说集《迷失在城市》（1992年）讲述了二十世纪中期华盛顿市内的非裔美国工人阶级和下层阶级的经历，琼斯以写实和令人回味的风格描绘了一些人物，尽管他们的生存状况一直处于不为人知的绝望之中，但却过着丰富、多样和引人注目的生活。多层次的历史小说《已知的世界》（2003）是琼斯的第二部重要作品。在这部以前弗吉尼亚州为背景的庞大传奇中，琼斯考察了拥有黑人奴隶的自由黑人的世界。他从几个不同的角度讲述了一个充满预示的复杂结构，对复杂的奴隶制提供了一个广阔的视野，捕捉到了那些遭受其致命影响的人的经历。琼斯煞费苦心地创作了具有艺术性的、道德上复杂的小说，挑战、挑衅和充实。

个人简历
爱德华-P-琼斯获得了圣十字学院的文学学士学位（1972年）和弗吉尼亚大学的艺术硕士学位（1981年）。他曾为贸易出版物Tax Notes工作（1983-2002），并在弗吉尼亚大学、普林斯顿大学、乔治梅森大学和马里兰大学担任兼职教师。他写了两本书，以及大量的故事，这些故事都出现在备受瞩目的文集和出版物中，如《精华》、《犁铧》、《Callaloo》和《纽约客》等。