A Rare Evening with Jesmyn Ward — Author Talk & Signing
Join two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward for a special evening at Tulane University, in conversation with acclaimed novelist Robert Jones Jr..
Ward will discuss her latest book, On Witness and Repair, a powerful collection of essays exploring grief, memory, motherhood, and the Black experience in America. The program will include a live conversation followed by a meet and greet.
This event will take place at McAlister Auditorium and is presented in partnership with the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University and Baldwin & Co.
Jesmyn Ward:
Jesmyn Ward is one of the most powerful literary voices of her generation—an acclaimed novelist, memoirist, and professor whose work explores race, grief, poverty, love, and the deep complexities of Black life in the American South. A two-time National Book Award winner, Ward is celebrated for her lyrical prose, moral clarity, and unforgettable storytelling, with landmark works including Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing, and Men We Reaped. Her writing has firmly established her as one of the most essential and influential American writers of our time.
Robert Jones Jr. :
Robert Jones, Jr. (formerly known on social media as “Son of Baldwin”) is a Brooklyn, New York-based writer and public speaker. He is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. His writings have been featured in The New York Times, Essence, Variety, and The Paris Review, as well as in the critically acclaimed anthologies Four Hundred Souls and The 1619 Project. The Prophets was named one of “The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature” by The New York Times. Subscribe to Robert's newsletter, Witness, at robertjonesjr.substack.com.
