Tayari Jones Quotes
I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
Jones, Tayari. Interview by Roxane Gay. The Rumpus, 24 May 2011.
He was a particularly skilled politician. He was the first Pharaoh for example to use is own name rather than a remote artificial court name. He needed his great political skill because he was one of the great builders of ancient Egypt and needed large quantities of manpower and treasure.
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection, and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City. Jones was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
