Jesmyn ward author biography john
In , she became the first woman and the first person of color to win two National Book Awards for Fiction—joining the ranks of William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Philip Roth, and John Updike. Jesmyn Ward’s first historical novel, the instant New York Times best seller Let Us Descend, tells the astonishing story of Annis, an.