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Jones, Edward P

LC control no.n 91094103
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LC classificationPS3560.O4813
Personal name headingJones, Edward P.
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1950-10-05
Place of birthArlington (Va.)
AffiliationUniversity of Virginia
Profession or occupationNovelists
Found inHis Lost in the city, 1992: CIP t.p. (Edward P. Jones)
Lost in the city, 2003: CIP t.p. (Edward P. Jones) data sheet (b. 1950)
African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Jones, Edward Paul; Edward P. Jones; fiction writer; born 05 October 1950 in Arlington, Virginia, United States; graduated with a degree in English from a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts (1972); enrolled in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Virginia (1979-1981); worked eighteen years as proofreader and later as a writer summarizing tax cases for Tax Notes; nominated for a National Book Award and received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award; received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004 and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story in 2010)