Acclaimed novelist Tayari Jones will join Executive Director Floyd Hall to discuss some favorite Atlanta memories, how crafting work on a typewriter informs Jones’ artistic practice as a contemporary author, and witnessing artist Tim Youd reinterpret An American Marriage in a new form as a performative visual work.
New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018, An American Marriage is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two dozen countries.
