Edward P. Jones is the author of Lost in the City, a National Book Award finalist, and The Known World, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of a PEN/Hemingway Award, a Lannan Foundation Grant and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Jones attended Holy Cross College and earned his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia. His latest work is All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories.