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Tayari Jones

Biography

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of five novels, most recently KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award, and has been published in two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.

Tayari Jones

Books by Tayari Jones

Kin
by Tayari Jones - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.

An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones - Fiction

Now in paperback, Tayari Jones' New York Times bestseller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection is an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward --- with hope and pain --- into the future.

Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones - Fiction

In a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, James Witherspoon has two families --- the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. 

The Untelling
by Tayari Jones - Fiction