BookExpo 2017: Coming of Age in Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward is a BookExpo veteran, who has attended the show multiple times, in connection with her bestselling titles "Salvage the Bones" (Bloomsbury), which won the 2011 National Book Award, and her memoir,"Men We Reaped" (Bloomsbury, 2013). Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

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Attention: a new Jesmyn Ward novel is coming this fall.

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BookExpo 2017: Audiobooks Evolve in the Age of Podcasts

“There’s a renaissance for spoken-word content and our media diet is expanding, but as the landscape becomes more saturated, audiobooks face greater and greater discoverability challenges,” said Tom Webster, v-p, strategy and marketing, at Edison Research. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BookExpo 2017: PEN America Named BookExpo Ambassador Award Winner

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See the cover for Jesmyn Ward’s new novel, Let Us Descend.

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Jesmyn Ward has won the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

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