![]() ![]() I never wrote but 12 pages in ten years (and never took notes) because I felt I didn't deserve to write until all the books had been read (No dessert before all the vegetables.). Maybe that creative gene in me rebelled at the notion of needing to read nonfiction to create fiction.īut I need to create and throughout those ten years the gene kept working. I guess that if I were reading just for pleasure, it would not have been a problem. I am not an historian and I suppose getting into all those pages was not in me. I could never get into reading those books-I never got beyond the first one I picked up year after year. As you may know, I, for those ten years, thought I needed to read those 40 or so books I had on American slavery. Did you believe that the characters and stories you were creating would ever become a book? How did you keep it all in your head?ĮJ: I figured it would eventually be a book I just did not know when. Lost in the City, a collection of stories, won the Pen/Hemingway award in 1992 and his most recent book, The Known World, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004.ĭR: You spent almost ten years creating The Known World in your head, but committed almost nothing to paper. ![]() A native of D.C., Jones attended Holy Cross College and the University of Virginia. His fictional worlds are complex and whole, the lives of his characters as rich and real as any writer alive today. ![]() Jones possesses a labyrinthine imagination. ![]()
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