Join acclaimed author Tayari Jones (Incoming Writing Fellow 2023) for an evening of intimate discourse and reflection at this virtual event on April 20th at 7:30PM ET, part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary 2021, presented by BAM in partnership with the National Book Foundation, and moderated by Deborah Treisman.

Tayari Jones is the author of An American Marriage, which was a New York Times bestseller, an Oprah’s Book Club pick, and selected by Barack Obama for his summer reading list. She is a native of Atlanta, which serves as the setting for An American Marriage as well as her other novels Leaving AtlantaThe UntellingSilver Sparrow, and the forthcoming Old Fourth Ward. Her writing has appeared in The New York TimesThe Washington PostO, The Oprah MagazineTimeTin House, and The Believer, among other publications. Jones is currently a Charles Howard Candler Professor at Emory University and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

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