"Let Us Descend" (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, part of Paramount Global), the latest novel from two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward, is thick with ghosts, history and searing ...

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Jesmyn Ward takes your questions about her novel 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' Jesmyn Ward's novel "Sing, Unburied, Sing" was our inaugural pick for the new PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, "Now Read ...

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Author Jesmyn Ward is regularly called a modern William Faulkner. She sets her novels in small-town Mississippi, and uses that setting to explore how America’s racist past continues to burden its ...

NEW YORK – Oprah Winfrey's new book club pick highlights an author she has long admired, Jesmyn Ward. On Tuesday, Winfrey announced she had selected Ward's “Let Us Descend,” which comes out this week.

NEW YORK — Novels by Jesmyn Ward and James McBride and story collections by Jamal Brinkley and Kelly Link are among the finalists Wednesday for the 10th annual Kirkus Prizes, for which winners in ...

For the first few years that National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward was writing her new novel, Let Us Descend, she says she really struggled to tap into her main character. Annis is an enslaved Black ...

Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward writes the stories of the people and places she found absent in literature while growing up. Her new fiction novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” weaves the supernatural ...

In “The Fire This Time,” National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward has gathered a stunning roster of contemporary writers of color to reflect on race in the present, and in the shadow of the past. Two ...

Six years ago, a young, relatively unknown writer from Mississippi published "Salvage the Bones." In lush prose that felt determined to sprout off the page, the novel described a poor African American ...