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Tayari Jones on the Art of Storytelling
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Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones 0000000034178764 Born in Atlanta, GA in 1970, Tayari Jones is an accomplished author and educator. After obtaining her Masters from the University of Iowa, she taught Developmental Readi...
Notes on “Quotes” from An American Marriage
Notes on “Quotes” from An American Marriage Tayari Jones Article “But home isn’t where you land; home is where you launch. You can’t pick your home any more than you can choose your...
Gayl Jones
Gayl Jones 0000000109336115 “Gayl Jones is an exceptionally talented writer.” —Robert Fleming Gayl Jones was born on November 23, 1949, in Lexington, Kentucky. Her father Franklin J...
An American Marriage: A Novel
An American Marriage: A Novel Tayari Jones 9781616208776 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Read Tayari’s, “Notes on “Quotes” from An American Marriage” An American Marriage is ...
Kin: A Novel
Kin: A Novel Tayari Jones 9780525659181 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● June 28, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT A magnificent new novel from the best...
Silver Sparrow
Silver Sparrow Tayari Jones 9781616201425 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jon...
Kim Jones
Kim Jones 0000000385386573 Kimberly Jones, an educator at Lawton Public Schools since 1998, is committed to community improvement. She has initiated numerous programs including “The Colors of Life,” ...
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones Wendy Jones 9781946348036 Nonfiction Ida Bell Publishing Ida Bell Publishing There is no one movie, song, or book that will make these troubled times d...
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art Kellie Jones 9780822348733 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kell...
The Birdcatcher
The Birdcatcher Gayl Jones 9780807029947 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature.” —Imani Per...
Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones 0000000031494569 Patricia Spears Jones, born in Arkansas, is the 2024 New York State Poet Laureate, a Jackson Poetry Prize laureate, and a cultural activist. An esteemed poet, p...
Timothy B. Francis, Lisa Jones Johnson, Walter C. Jones, and Lisa Fairchild
Timothy B. Francis, Lisa Jones Johnson, Walter C. Jones, and Lisa Fairchild MULTIPLE Authors Timothy B. Francis, Lisa Jones Johnson, Walter C. Jones, and Lisa Fairchild are recognized for their indiv...
Solomon Jones
Solomon Jones NONE Solomon Jones is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and community advocate who overcame adversity to succeed. He began his career writing articles while living in a sh...
Atlanta Noir
Atlanta Noir Tayari Jones 9781617755378 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018’s Books All Georgians Should Read!Kenji Jasper’s "A Momen...
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Carole Boyce-Davies 9780822341161 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Left of Karl Marx, Carole...
Van Jones
Van Jones 0000000120304157 Van Jones, a Yale-educated attorney, is a best-selling author, environmental activist, and White House policy advisor. Known as a social entrepreneur, CNN political contrib...
Leslie Jones
Leslie Jones 0000000447812524 Leslie Jones, born in 1967, is an award-nominated actress known for her work on Saturday Night Live and HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death. She's been recognized as one...
Clarence B. Jones
Clarence B. Jones 0000000036182118 AALBC mourns the passing of Clarence B. Jones Dr. Clarence Benjamin Jones (January 8, 1931 – May 22, 2026) the lawyer who served as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s pe...
Leaving Atlanta
Leaving Atlanta Thumper Book Review Tayari Jones enters the literary scene with Leaving Atlanta, a novel that takes place in 1979 Atlanta, Georgia during what came to be known as the Atlanta Child ...
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho Gayl Jones 9780807029909 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press From the highly acclaimed author of Corregidora and The Healing—two epic poems, the love songs of fugiti...
Kellie Jones
Kellie Jones 0000000076890717 Kellie Jones is an Associate Professor at Columbia University specializing in African American and African Diaspora artists, Latinx and Latin American Artists, and conte...
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin Hafizah Augustus Geter 9780593448649 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House An acclaimed poet reclaims her origin story as the queer daughter of...
Terry Wells-Jones
Terry Wells-Jones NONE Terry Wells-Jones, a graduate from the University of Wisconsin, is a retired businesswoman and one of the first Black models of the 1960s. She broke barriers as the first woman...
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones Carol Taylor Book Review The Culinary Art Portfolio is neither a cookbook nor a how-to-book. It’s a portfolio, with ready- to-frame prints of th...
Country Place: A Novel
Country Place: A Novel Ann Petry 9780063260092 Fiction Mariner Books Classics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel first published in 1947“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stori...
Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic Valerie Boyd 9781940596471 Nonfiction Lookout Books Lookout Books An anthology of Black resilience and reclamation, with con...
We Are Not Like Them
We Are Not Like Them Christine Pride and Jo Piazza 9781982181031 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond ...
The Street
The Street Ann Petry 9780358187547 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES "How can a novel’s social criticism be ...
Tayari Jones on Working with Literary Agents and Editors
Tayari Jones on Working with Literary Agents and Editors Author Interviews
The Untelling
The Untelling Tayari Jones 9780446694568 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Aria Jackson lived through the car crash that killed her father and brother when she was nine. At 25 she b...
Leaving Atlanta
Leaving Atlanta Tayari Jones 9780446690898 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with this coming-of-age story of three young black child...
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over Nell Irvin Painter 9781640090613 Nonfiction Counterpoint Counterpoint A Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick: 1 of 34 Titles to Wave a Flag About "Old in...
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir Saeed Jones 9781501132742 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. >From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-...
Keeping Up With The Jones
Keeping Up With The Jones Solomon Jones 9780975521908 Fiction Sola Productions, Inc. Sola Productions, Inc. Bernie Mac meets Dave Barry in Keeping Up With The Jones — a humorous look at marriage, fami...
Gregory S. Jones
Gregory S. Jones NONE Gregory S. Jones, co-founder of “The Paper Tiger” and co-author of “The Root Of All Evil,” plans to educate African-American communities about nationality and advocate for repar...
Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones 0000000365991477 Saeed Jones, award-winning author of 'Prelude to Bruise', is known for his work at BuzzFeed as an LGBT and Culture editor, as well as co-host of AM to DM. Born in Memphis...
Fearless Jones
Fearless Jones Thumper Book Review After 5 years, Walter Mosley has returned to the mystery scene with a new pair of crime solvers for his novel Fearless Jones. It’s as if Mosley had never said...
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones Paige Turner Book Review The new book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones reads almost like a fable or a fairy tale. The young Quincy Jones, with his twinkly eyes, wa...
Actress Tamala Jones The “Castle” Interview
Actress Tamala Jones The “Castle” Interview Kam Williams Interview Tamala Jones The “Castle” Interview Tamala Jones has created a varied career based on her prodigious talent, working steadily...
Gayl Jones: The Language Of Voice And Freedom In Her Writings
Gayl Jones: The Language Of Voice And Freedom In Her Writings Casey Clabough 9780786433797 Nonfiction McFarland McFarland Gayl Jones is dedicated to the art of "verbal authenticity," stemming from her...
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series)
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series) Bill T. Jones 9780691162706 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press In this ceaselessly questioning book...
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374526 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negr...
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374243 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negro) model and...
Alive at the End of the World
Alive at the End of the World Saeed Jones 9781566896511 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author...
God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited
God in the Ghetto: A Prophetic Word Revisited William Augustus Jones Jr. 9780817018221 Nonfiction Judson Press Judson Press At long last, the reissue of the classic book, God in the Ghetto by the late...
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together
Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together Van Jones 9780399180026 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A passionate manifesto that exposes hypocrisy on both sides of ...
Fish Tales (1984)
Fish Tales (1984) Nettie Jones 9780394532943 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House A new version was published in 2025“Mostly forgotten and long out-of-print, Fish Tales by Nettie Jones is an ofte...
Stephen Mack Jones
Stephen Mack Jones 000000050165955X Stephen Mack Jones is an acclaimed poet, playwright, and recipient of the Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship. After years in advertising, Jones now resides...
Patrick Williams with Angie Ransome-Jones
Patrick Williams with Angie Ransome-Jones MULTIPLE Authors Patrick Williams and Angie Ransome-Jones are renowned writers; Williams known for his thought-provoking narratives and Ransome-Jones for her...
Tamiya Davis with Angie Ransome-Jones
Tamiya Davis with Angie Ransome-Jones MULTIPLE Authors Tamiya Davis and Angie Ransome-Jones are prominent writers. The image showcases them with Elizabeth Savage. Tamiya Davis and Angie Ransome-J...
Elizabeth Savage with Angie Ransome-Jones
Elizabeth Savage with Angie Ransome-Jones MULTIPLE Elizabeth Savage and Angie Ransome-Jones are notable authors. The photo features them along with Tamiya Davis, highlighting their collaborative effo...
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson MULTIPLE Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson are award-winning authors known for their impactful works. Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, is renowned ...
Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones 0000000109223233 Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at Holy Cross College and the University of Virginia. Known for h...
William Augustus Jones Jr.
William Augustus Jones Jr. 0000000021740789 William A. Jones Jr. (1934-2006) was a distinguished African-American minister and civil rights leader. An alumnus of the University of Kentucky and Crozer...
Erika Lynne Jones
Erika Lynne Jones NONE Erika Lynne Jones, a children's book author and illustrator, uses her work to celebrate culture and affirm children's worth. Known for “The Loud Librarian” and based in Dallas,...
Van Jones - The "Carbon Nation" Interview
Van Jones - The "Carbon Nation" Interview Kam Williams Interview Former Obama Green Czar Opines on the State of the "Carbon Nation" Anthony "Van" Jones and his twin sister, Angela, were born...
Gibran Tariq and Gregory S. Jones
Gibran Tariq and Gregory S. Jones MULTIPLE Gibran Tariq and Gregory S. Jones are renowned authors known for their compelling narrative style and insightful storytelling. Their works span various genr...
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s Kellie Jones 9780822361640 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Named a Best Art Book of 201...
Paul Von Blum
Paul Von Blum NONE Paul Von Blum is a Senior Lecturer at UCLA with a rich history in African American Studies and Communication Studies. Since 1968, he has taught at UC Berkeley and UCLA. An esteemed...
The Beloved Community
The Beloved Community Patricia Spears Jones 9781556596667 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Dedicated to friends, fellow artists, and resilient working people, The Beloved Community sees ...
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition In African American Literature
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition In African American Literature Gayl Jones 9780674530249 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press The powerful novelist here turns penetrating crit...
Cristi Smith-Jones
Cristi Smith-Jones NONE Cristi Smith-Jones, a stay-at-home mom turned amateur photographer, creatively combines art and history for her daughters in Kent, WA. Inspired by her late grandmother, the fi...
Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian MULTIPLE Denisha Jones, a member of the national Black Lives Matter at School committee, is an activist and advocate for education justice. She is the Director of the...
Story/Time: The Life of an Idea
Story/Time: The Life of an Idea Kam Williams Book Review “In this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African-American dancer, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art...
Fish Tales: A Novel
Fish Tales: A Novel Nettie Jones 9780374608804 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers “Fish Tales is wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive. A novel unlike any other,...
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir
Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly 9781952485930 Nonfiction Redhawk Publications Redhawk Publications Last of the Lions is two histories wov...
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged Kimberly Jones 9781250805126 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A breakdown of the economic and social injusti...
Palmares
Palmares Gayl Jones 9780807033494 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The epic rendering of a Black woman’s journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a m...
An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones
An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones Wendy Jones 9781946348029 Nonfiction Ida Bell Publishing Ida Bell Publishing This is the biography of my mother, a South Carolina sharecropper’s daughter, b...
Prelude to Bruise
Prelude to Bruise Saeed Jones 9781566893749 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Praise for Saeed Jones: "Jones is the kind of writer who’s more than wanted: he’s desperately needed."—FlavorW...
Princess Cupcake Jones and the Missing Tutu (Princess Cupcake Jones Series)
Princess Cupcake Jones and the Missing Tutu (Princess Cupcake Jones Series) Ylleya Fields 9780578113036 Fiction Belle Publishing LLC Belle Publishing LLC Princess Cupcake Jones loves creating a mess a...
Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask
Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask Bob Jones and Stacy M. Brown 9781590790724 Nonfiction Select Books (NY) Select Books (NY) ’Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask’ is the INSIDE STORY of the...
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems Van Jones 9780061650765 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins “Steadily—by redefining green—Jones is making sure that our plane...
Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask: An Insider’s Story of the King of Pop
Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask: An Insider’s Story of the King of Pop Bob Jones 9781590792032 Nonfiction Select Books Select Books ’Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask’ is the INSIDE ST...
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 Martha S. Jones 9780807858455 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press ...
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories Edward P. Jones 9780060557577 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Three years after the publication of his much-heralded, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World, Ed...
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Quincy Jones 9780385488969 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived lar...
Kenneth Parker and Van Jones
Kenneth Parker and Van Jones MULTIPLE Kenneth Parker and Van Jones are renowned authors known for their insightful works. Their rich literary contributions span various genres, captivating a broad ...
Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones
Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones MULTIPLE Reynaldo Anderson and Charles E. Jones are accomplished authors, known for their significant contributions to literature. Reynaldo Anderson and Cha...
Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones MULTIPLE Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones are renowned authors, known for their collaborative and individual works in literature. Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones (left)
Karin L. Stanford and Charles E. Jones
Karin L. Stanford and Charles E. Jones MULTIPLE Karin L. Stanford and Charles E. Jones are renowned authors recognized for their profound contributions to literature.
Rochelle Riley, and Cristi Smith-Jones
Rochelle Riley, and Cristi Smith-Jones MULTIPLE Rochelle Riley and Cristi Smith-Jones are accomplished authors known for their insightful and impactful works. Their narratives often explore societal ...
Florence L. Tate and Jake-Ann Jones
Florence L. Tate and Jake-Ann Jones MULTIPLE Florence Louise Tate & Jake-Ann Jones are accomplished authors, known for their insightful and engaging literary works. Their stories are imbued with dive...
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Oprah Winfrey MULTIPLE Oprah Winfrey is a renowned media executive, actress, talk show host, and philanthropist. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and...
Karoline Bethea-Jones
Karoline Bethea-Jones NONE Karoline Bethea-Jones, a passionate writer for over 25 years, expresses human emotions through her characters. She started with poetry and fiction, published her first nove...
Lisa Jones Johnson
Lisa Jones Johnson NONE Lisa Jones Johnson is a Harvard-educated attorney, author, and CEO of NextGen Media Group. She launched a global social media platform and authored the award-nominated novel, ...
Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage
Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage MULTIPLE Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage are renowned authors with significant contribut...
Nettie Jones
Nettie Jones NONE Nettie Jones is an acclaimed author known for her captivating narratives. (Photo credit goes to Marcia Wilson of Wide Vision Photography). Nettie Jones (born 1941) is the author of ...
Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman
Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman MULTIPLE Brenda Jones, renowned for her 15-year role as communications director for Rep. John Lewis and co-author of an NAACP award-winning book, has vast experience ...
Robert Jones, Jr.
Robert Jones, Jr. MULTIPLE Robert Jones, Jr. is a New York-born author with a BFA and MFA from Brooklyn College. He's written for The New York Times and other publications, created the social justice...
Cherie Jones
Cherie Jones NONE Cherie S.A. Jones, born in 1974, is a decorated Barbadian author and lawyer. She earned her LL.B degree in 1995 and was admitted to the Barbados Bar in 1997. Known for her award-win...
Jackie Jones
Jackie Jones NONE Dr. Jackie Jones Dr. Jackie Jones, also known by her pseudonym Harriet Berrien is an African American writer inspired by Black history. She was born on July 30, 1951, in Augusta, Ge...
An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones
An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones Brenda M. Greene Book Review Wendy Jones has written a tribute to her late mother Josephine E. Jones. Her mother was part of the Great Migration, depicted so...
Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones 0000000116998387 Stephen Jones Sr. is a renowned author known for his captivating storytelling and unique writing style. His work spans various genres, reflecting his versatile talent a...
Jenin Mohammed
Jenin Mohammed NONE Jenin Mohammed, a talented illustrator from Florida, is renowned for her humorous and captivating art. Winner of the 2020 Summer Spectacular Illustration Grand Prize, her unique s...
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill Jericho Brown 9780063278189 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, D...
The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward
The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith 9781668207024 Nonfiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. A liberatory anthology of twenty-s...
Feminism: Women and Womxn in British Art
Feminism: Women and Womxn in British Art Bernardine Evaristo 9781849767163 Nonfiction Tate Publishing (UK) Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC Feminism by Booker Prize–winning author Bernardine Evarist...
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art Zaria Ware 9780063272415 Nonfiction Harper Design HarperCollins “This can’t be real.” Surely, someone must have gotten carri...