Tayari Jones is the internationally bestselling author of four novels, the most recent of which, An American Marriage, was selected for the Oprah Book Club with a first hardback printing of 400,000 copies. It went on to win the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, she is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.