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| name = Tayari Jones <!-- do not add image icons such as nobel peace, see [[:Template:Infobox writer]] -->
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| caption = Jones in 2010
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|11|30|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Atlanta, Georgia]],
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| website = {{url|tayarijones.com}}
| education = {{ubl|[[Spelman College]]
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*Writer *professor}} | employer = [[Emory University]]
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'''Tayari Jones''' (born November 30, 1970<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Tayari|date=November 20, 2020|title=Today is my birthday. I'm FIFTY YEARS OLD.|url=https://twitter.com/tayari/status/1333410770814726147|access-date=2020-11-30|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref> in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]) is the author of four novels, most recently ''[[An American Marriage]]'', which was a 2018 [[Oprah's Book Club 2.0|Oprah's Book Club]] Selection,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.oprah.com/inspiration/an-american-marriage-by-tayari-jones-oprahs-book-club-2018|title=Oprah's New Book Club: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones|work=Oprah.com|access-date=November 28, 2018|language=en-us}}</ref> and won the 2019 [[Women's Prize for Fiction]].<ref>Flood, Alison (June 5, 2019), [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/05/womens-prize-for-fiction-tayari-jones-novel-an-american-marriage "Women's prize for fiction goes to 'utterly moving' Tayari Jones novel"], ''[[The Guardian]]''.</ref> Jones is a graduate of [[Spelman College]], the [[University of Iowa]], and [[Arizona State University]]. She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at [[Emory University]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/blog/talk-town/atlanta-native-author-tayari-jones-joins-faculty-emory-university/RRMBPUevnbenCFyuzg2mFP/|title=Atlanta native, author Tayari Jones joins faculty of Emory University|work=ajc|access-date=November 28, 2018}}</ref> and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in [[New York City]]. Jones was [[Andrew Dickson White]] Professor-at-large at [[Cornell University]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/09/six-ad-white-professors-large-elected|title=Six A.D. White Professors-at-Large elected|last=Aloi|first=Daniel|date=September 10, 2019|website=Cornell Chronicle|access-date=October 22, 2019}}</ref> before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at [[Emory University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tayari Jones|url=http://creativewriting.emory.edu/home/people/core-faculty/jones-tayari.html|access-date=2021-01-18|website=creativewriting.emory.edu}}</ref>
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