The Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics invites the community to a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Edward P. Jones on Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 12 to 12:50 p.m. in Room 2.022 next to the Briscoe Library.
It was Jones’ first novel,
The Known World, that received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Growing up as the son of a single mother and the first person in his immediate family to seek higher education, he never would have dreamed he would also be short-listed for the National Book Award and win the $120,000 prize of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award in 2005.
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| The Known World is what earned Jones the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. | |
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The Known World is one of the best books I’ve read this year,” said Abraham Verghese, M.D., Marvin Forland Distinguished Professor in Medical Ethics and director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics. “The book, which is about black slaveholders, displays extraordinary imagery and prose. I look forward to the chance to hear from this extraordinary writer.”
Pizza will be served at the session and the bookstore is selling books that can be signed by Jones when he is here.
