Tayari Jones Bio | Wiki
Tayari Jones is a popular American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which became a 2018 Oprah’s Book Club Selection, and received the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Jones is now a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University and recently came back to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City.
She was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University prior to becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
Tayari Jones Age
Jones was born on November 30, 1970, in Cascade Heights, Atlanta, in the United States. She is 52 years old. Jones celebrates her birthday on November 30, every year.
Tayari Jones Height
She is a woman of above-average stature. Jones stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.7 m).
Tayari Jones Family
She was born and brought up in Cascade Heights, Atlanta, by her parents. Jones is the daughter of Mack and Barbara Jones, who both participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Her parents went on the obtain PhDs in social sciences and became professors at Clark College. Jones’ father taught political science at Atlanta University, while her mom taught economics at Clark College. She has two brothers including Bomani Jones and two half-sisters from a former marriage of her father’s.
Tayari Jones Husband
Jones lives in the United States. She loves to keep her personal life secretive hence Jones has not mentioned any details regarding her marital status.
Tayari Jones Education
Following graduating from Benjamin Mays High School, Jones went to Spelman College, a historically black women’s college in Atlanta. Over her time at Spelman, JOnes studied under Pearl Cleage. Later on, Jones graduated from Spelman in 1991 and moved on to complete a master’s degree in English from the University of Iowa in 1994 and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Arizona State University in 2000.
Tayari Jones Silver Sparrow
Her third novel Silver Sparrow was published by Algonquin Books in 2011. This novel became an American Booksellers Association number 1 “Indie Next” pick.
Tayari Jones Books
– Leaving Atlanta (2003)
– The untelling (2005)
– Silver Sparrow (2011)
– An American Marriage (2018)
– Agents in Place (2018)
– An American Marriage: WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019 (2018)
– Dispossession (2021)
– The Old Fourth Ward (2022)
Tayari Jones An American Marriage
Jones is the author of her fourth novel titled An American Marriage which was published by Algonquin Books on February 6, 2018. This novel became chosen for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 and won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. An American Marriage novel focuses on the marriage of a middle-class African-American couple, Celestial and Roy, who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. During an interview with The Paris Review Jones mentioned that she initially wrote the book solely from Celestial’s point of view and decided to add several points of view following her initial readers’ reaction negatively to Celestial.
Tayari Jones The Untelling
Her novel titled The Untelling is also set in Atlanta. Described in Publishers Weekly as her “deep-felt second novel”, the book examines how the protagonist comes to terms with the loss of key members of Jones’ family as a child prior to having to redefine herself all over again in her mid-twenties. The Untelling novel also was awarded the Lillian Smith Book Award in 2005.
Tayari Jones Leaving Atlanta
Her first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a three-voiced coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979–81. Its three perspectives in the novel are children: LaTasha Baxter, Rodney Green, as well as Octavia Fuller. Leaving Atlanta novel, which was written while Jones was a graduate student at Arizona State University, is based on her experience as a child in Atlanta during that period. Leaving Atlanta received the 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction.
Tayari Jones Quotes
– “Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.”
– “But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.”
– “There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that’s already yours.”
– “Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don’t care how you got there.”
– “Is it love, or is it convenience?… She explained that connivence, habit, comfort, obligation- these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.”
– “There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots.”
– “One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.”
– “I don’t believe that blood makes a family; kin is the circle you create, hands held tight.”
– “A marriage is more than your heart, it’s your life. And we are not sharing ours.”
– “You can never really unlove somebody. Maybe it changes shape, but it’s there.”
– “Marriage is between two people. There is no studio audience.”
Tayari Jones Net Worth
She works as an author and academic known for An American Marriage, which became a 2018 Oprah’s Book Club Selection, and received the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Therefore, Jones has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Jones’ estimated net worth is $912,253.
How Old Is Tayari Jones
Jones is a 52-year-old who was born on November 30, 1970, in Cascade Heights, Atlanta, in the United States.
Who Is Tayari Jones
She works as an author and academic known for An American Marriage, which became a 2018 Oprah’s Book Club Selection, and also received the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Jones is now a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University and also recently came back to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City.