Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1970-11-30
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Kin
- Shelf Discovery
- An American Marriage
- Push
- Silver Sparrow
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- Total plays
- 122
From www.tayarijones.com Tayari Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia where she spent most of her childhood with the exception of the one year she and her family spent in Nigeria, West Africa. Although she has not lived in her hometown for over a decade, much of her writing centers on the urban south. “Although I now live in the northeast,” she explains, “my imagination lives in Atlanta.” Her first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a coming of age story set during the city’s infamous child mu
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Atlanta
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Spelman College
- Employer
- George Washington University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- creative writing
- Official website
- www.tayarijones.com
- Image
- TayariJones.jpg
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