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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 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Jesmyn Ward is the 7,379th most popular writer (down from 7,265th in 2024), the 18,557th most popular biography from United States (up from 18,871st in 2019) and the 1,215th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Jesmyn Ward ranks 7,379 out of 7,302. Before her are James Frey, Dawid Jung, Yahya Hassan, Richard Appel, Anita Sarkeesian, and Annemarie Jacir. After her are Ann Brashares, Sanjay Gupta, Chetan Bhagat, Roxane Gay, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and Zeina Abirached.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Jesmyn Ward ranks 1,128. Before her are Anna Kareyeva, Ahmed Abdi Godane, Alina Jidkova, Anna Maxwell Martin, Kim Jong-su, and Maria Petrova. After her are Stephan Bonnar, Ditmir Bushati, Simone Bacciocchi, Kojiro Kaimoto, Aleksandar Ćirić, and Radek Dvořák.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jesmyn Ward ranks 18,565 out of 20,380. Before her are Theo Ratliff (1973), Adrienne C. Moore (1980), Nargis Fakhri (1979), Derek Cecil (1973), Jillian Murray (1984), and J-five (1983). After her are Lizz Wright (1980), Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger (1975), Stephan Bonnar (1977), Jillian Michaels (1974), Ann Brashares (1967), and Adam Busch (1978).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jesmyn Ward ranks 1,215. Before her are Helen DeWitt (1957), Jane Espenson (1964), Beau Willimon (1977), David Magee (1962), James Frey (1969), and Richard Appel (1963). 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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