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Jesmyn Ward

1977 - Today

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Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. She is the only woman and only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jesmyn Ward is the 7,222nd most popular writer (up from 7,264th in 2019), the 18,087th most popular biography from United States (up from 18,871st in 2019) and the 1,184th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Jesmyn Ward ranks 7,222 out of 7,302. Before her are Jane Espenson, Beau Willimon, James Frey, Dawid Jung, Yahya Hassan, and Anita Sarkeesian. After her are Ann Brashares, Sanjay Gupta, Chetan Bhagat, Roxane Gay, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and Gwen Ifill.

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Among people born in 1977, Jesmyn Ward ranks 1,004. Before her are César Augusto Ramírez, Daisuke Sudo, Anna Kareyeva, Alina Jidkova, Anna Maxwell Martin, and Kim Jong-su. After her are Ditmir Bushati, Kojiro Kaimoto, Aleksandar Ćirić, Radek Dvořák, Zsolt Nemcsik, and Janne Saarinen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jesmyn Ward ranks 18,095 out of 20,380. Before her are Columbus Short (1982), Jonathan James (1983), Theo Ratliff (1973), Adrienne C. Moore (1980), Nargis Fakhri (1979), and Jillian Murray (1984). After her are Lizz Wright (1980), Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger (1975), Ann Brashares (1967), Adam Busch (1978), Misty Copeland (1982), and Wendell Brown (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jesmyn Ward ranks 1,184. Before her are Nnedi Okorafor (1974), Jake Tapper (1969), Helen DeWitt (1957), Jane Espenson (1964), Beau Willimon (1977), and James Frey (1969). After her are Ann Brashares (1967), Sanjay Gupta (1969), Roxane Gay (1974), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (1973), Gwen Ifill (1955), and Stephen Thomas Erlewine (1973).

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