"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward is first woman to win twice for Fiction for ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ "Great American Novelist ...

She recounts her experience of growing up black and poor in rural Mississippi in Reagan’s 1980s and the early 21st century, ...

October 2000. A funeral service for Jesmyn Ward's younger brother Joshua in DeLisle, Miss., a small rural community in the Gulf Coast pinewoods. There are other young black men among the family and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” is a multivocal book, switching voices from chapter to chapter. But its moral anchor is a young boy named JoJo, a biracial child in Mississippi who ...

The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year’s ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the administrator and presenter of the ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The '90s teen is still very much alive in me, that looks at the self and judges," Ward admits when we speak in early April.

“Great American Novelist” has long been a pretty masculinized term, a way of jumping straight to names with the largest cultural visibility at the expense of women and people of color. And even as ...