![]() ![]() She moved to DeLisle, Mississippi, with her family at the age of three. ![]() Jesmyn Ward was born in 1977 in Berkeley, California. All three of Ward's novels are set in the fictitious Mississippi town of Bois Sauvage. ![]() She is the only woman and only African American to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice. She also received a 2012 Alex Award for the story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones and won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W.
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