Edward P. Jones was a National Book Award finalist first with Lost in the City, and then with The Known World, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2004.  He has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, a Lannan Foundation Grant, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacArthur Foundation.  Jones attended Holy Cross College and earned his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia.  He has taught fiction at Princeton University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland.  His latest work is All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories.