Author guide
Jesmyn Ward Books in Order
Jesmyn Ward is an American writer and professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of novels, memoir, essays, and an edited anthology. She has won the National Book Award for Fiction twice, for Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing, and is a MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
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Jesmyn Ward's Newest Book
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Where the Line Bleeds
Ward's debut novel and the first book in the Bois Sauvage trilogy.
Salvage the Bones
A standalone National Book Award-winning novel and an accessible entry point to Ward's fiction.
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Books by series
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Bois Sauvage
A loose trilogy of novels set in the fictional Mississippi Gulf Coast town of Bois Sauvage.
Outside the series
