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Tayari Jones Profile

Tayari Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and lived one year in Nigeria, West Africa. Inspired by her experience of Atlanta’s infamous child murders of 1979 to 1981, Jones wrote her first novel Leaving Atlanta (Warner 2003), which received the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction, “Novel of the Year” by Atlanta Magazine, “Best Southern Novel of the Year” by Creative Loafing Atlanta, and was listed as one of the best of 2002 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Washington Post. Her second novel, The Untelling (Warner 2005) received the Lillian C. Smith Award for New Voices by the Southern Regional council and the University of Georgia Libraries. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, The University of Iowa, and Spelman College. She joins the faculty of Rutgers University, Newark as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2007.

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