On my radar: Tayari Jones's cultural highlights
The prizewinning novelist on beating writer’s block, why she still uses a typewriter, and the podcast she’s been bingeing
Tayari Jones is an American novelist whose fourth book, An American Marriage, won the 2019 Women’s prize for fiction. Born in Atlanta in 1970, she graduated from Arizona State University in 2000 and is currently a professor of English and creative writing at Emory University. Her latest novel, Silver Sparrow, in which two teenagers deal with family fragmentation and deception, was published earlier this year.
