Fictionaut Five: Tayari Jones
Fictionaut Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Fictionaut Tayari Jones is one of the writers to win a 2008 United States Artist Fellowship , along with Jeff Chang, Joy Harjo, and Barry Hannah. Tayari's first novel, Leaving Atlanta , is a coming-of-age story that centers on the Atlanta child murders of 1979–81 and won the 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Untelling , traces the legacy of a fatal accident that...
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