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2026 Festival: Oct 18–25

Tayari Jones

United States

TAYARI JONES is a New York Times bestselling author of five novels, most recently Kin, an Oprah’s Book Club Selection. Her novel, An American Marriage, was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and won many awards including the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta.

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