Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones
Edward Paul Jonesis an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
running america people
Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.
long ease uneasy
Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.
baby men blow
The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.
men age matter
A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.
eye stories seems
Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.
love worthy worthiness
We are all worthy of one another.
fiction facts steps
In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.
awful humans human-beings
I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.
mother book black-and-white
At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.
along pick riding sudden
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.
caused climate happened people perhaps system time
Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.
choose days island knew might perhaps religious stranded useful
Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.
home near
From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.
compulsion kernel stories
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.