An American Marriage has been selected as a finalist for GoodReads’ 10th Annual GoodReads Choice Awards in the 2018 Best of Fiction Category. Voting is open until November 4th, and votes can be cast once each day until online voting closes. … Continue reading →
Tayari Jones is honored to have been selected for Ebony Magazine’s 2018 EBONY Power 100 List. On the significance of this year’s honorees, Forbes writes, “[the list recognizes] and celebrate[s] the most inspiring and influential leaders of color who are impacting … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist. A six-title shortlist (three fiction titles, three nonfiction titles,) will be announced on October 24, 2018. The two winners (fiction, nonfiction) will be announced in … Continue reading →
Tayari Jones joins The New York Times‘ Lauretta Charlton for a conversation on Black Sisterhood, Anita Hill, and Christine Blasey Ford in the wake of the Kavanaugh Hearings. On Black Feminism, Ms. Jones remarks: “Black women’s feminist contributions are very often erased. But … Continue reading →
Tayari Jones is honored to have delivered remarks at the 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards–the only national literary foundation dedicated to awarding exclusively female writers with outstanding contributions to fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. In her remarks to this year’s … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been selected for the 2018 National Book Award Longlist for Fiction,. The longlist will be whittled down to a shortlist of five books, which will be announced Oct. 10. The winner will be revealed at a ceremony in New York on Nov. 14.
For the complete 2018 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction, click here.
Literacy Partners provides excerpts of over two hundred books, poems, and short stories to New Yorkers on and off the subway. For an excerpt of An American Marriage, click here. … Continue reading →
An American Marriage has been chosen for President Barack Obama’s 2018 Summer Reading List. In a Facebook post, the President wrote: “One of my favorite parts of summer is deciding what to read when things slow down just a bit, whether it’s … Continue reading →
“An American Marriage Came Together After A Trip To The Mall” Find the full transcript here. … Continue reading →
