Jesmyn Ward Bio | Wiki
Jesmyn Ward is a popular American novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities.
Ward won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones and received the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. Ward also received a 2012 Alex Award for the story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She became the only woman and only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice.
Jesmyn Ward Age
Ward was born on April 1, 1977, in Berkeley, California, in the United States. She is 46 years old. Ward celebrates her birthday on April 1, every year.
Jesmyn Ward Height
She is a woman of average stature. Ward stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
Jesmyn Ward Family | Brother
She was born in Berkeley, California, and moved to DeLisle, Mississippi, with her family at the age of three. As the oldest child, Ward was brought up in her grandmother Dorothy Dedeaux’s house with one brother, two sisters, and other relatives. Ward’s mother, Norine Elizabeth Dedeaux, and her father, a retired member of the Black Panthers, had a difficult life. Following many separations, they divorced, with her father leaving the family to go to New Orleans, Louisiana, and her mother supported the family as a maid.
Jesmyn Ward Husband
Ward was married to her late husband Brandon Raeshone Miller. Her husband Brandon was born December 15, 1986, in Toledo, Ohio, and died of acute respiratory distress syndrome at the age of 33 on January 09, 2020, at Memorial Hospital-Gulfport, surrounded by his loving family and friends. The two shares two children named Noemie Miller and Brando Miller.
Jesmyn Ward Education
Ward received a B.A. in English, in 1999, and an M.A. in media studies and communication, in 2000, both at Stanford University. She chose to become a writer to honor the memory of her younger brother, who became killed by a drunk driver in October 2000, just after she had completed her master’s degree. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan in 2005.
Jesmyn Ward Books
– Where the Line Bleeds (Agate Publishing, 2008)
– Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011)
– Men We Reaped (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)
– The Fire This Time (Simon & Schuster, 2016)
– Sing, Unburied, Sing: a novel (Scribner, September 2017)
– Navigate Your Stars (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Jesmyn Ward Salvage The Bones
On April 1, 2012, Ward released her second novel titled Salvage the Bones which is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real. In this novel, she in once more on the visceral bond between poor black siblings growing up on the Gulf Coast. Ward received the National Book Award for Fiction for Salvage the Bones on November 16, 2011.
Jesmyn Ward Sing Unburied Sing
On September 5, 2017, Ward published her third novel Sing, Unburied, Sing which was published by Scribner. This novel focuses on a family in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The novel is also a majestic new work and an unforgettable family story.
Jesmyn Ward The Fire This Time
On June 20, 2017, Ward released her book titled The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. This book is vivid proof that words are important, due to their power to both cleanse and to clarify” (USA TODAY). In this book, Ward also gathers our most original thinkers and writers to speak on contemporary racism and race.
Jesmyn Ward Quotes
– “Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”
– “Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need, no matter how hard you look. Sometimes it withholds.”
– “It stays with me, a bruise in the memory that hurts when I touch it.”
– “Ain’t no good in using anger just to lash. You pray for it to blow up a storm that’s going to flush out the truth.”
– “And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.”
– “Can’t nothing bother me when I got my hands in the dirt, he said. Like I’m talking to God with my fingers.”
– “In every one of the Greeks’ mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.”
– “But I am not that eloquent, so I shut my mouth and smile.”
– “But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters.”
– “It’s like a snake that sheds its skin. The outside look different when the scales change, but the inside always the same.”
Jesmyn Ward Husband Brandon Miller
Ward was married to her late husband Brandon Raeshone Miller. Her husband Brandon was born December 15, 1986, in Toledo, Ohio, and died of an acute respiratory distress syndrome at the age of 33 on January 09, 2020, at Memorial Hospital-Gulfport, surrounded by his loving family and friends. The two shares two children named Noemie Miller and Brando Miller.
Jesmyn Ward Net Worth
Ward works as a novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. Therefore, Ward has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Ward’s estimated net worth is $761,432.
Is Jesmyn Ward Married
Ward was married to her late husband Brandon Raeshone Miller. Her husband Brandon was born December 15, 1986, in Toledo, Ohio, and died of acute respiratory distress syndrome at the age of 33 on January 09, 2020, at Memorial Hospital-Gulfport, surrounded by his loving family and friends.
How Old Is Jesmyn Ward
Ward is a 46-year-old who was born on April 1, 1977, in Berkeley, California, in the United States.
Who Is Jesmyn Ward
Ward works as a novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. Ward won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones and received the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing.