Pulitzer Prize Winner Edward P. Jones Visits the Philippines!

Pulitzer Prize Winner Edward P. Jones visits the Philippines November 9 - 19, 2011, for a roadshow sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Embassy of the U.S.A. in Manila, National Book Store Philippines, and the National Book Development Board of the Philippines.

Born in 1951, Edward Paul Jones grew up an American novelist and short fiction writer. His novel, The Known World, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2004.

Edward P.Jones grew up in Washington, D.C., and completed his degrees at the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia.

His first book, Lost in the City, is an anthology of short stories about the African-American working class in 20th-century Washington, D.C.

His second book, The Known World, is set in a fictitious Virginia county. Its main character is a mixed-race black planter and slaveholder. The book won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Jones's third book, All Aunt Hagar's Children, was published in 2006. It is also an anthology of short stories about African Americans, mostly in Washington, D.C. Some of the stories were published in The New Yorker magazine. It was a 2007 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.