Ward\, hailed as &ldquo\;the new Toni Morr ison&rdquo\; by the American Booksellers Association\, is the author of fi ction\, nonfiction\, and memoir\, including the critically acclaimed novel s \;Sing\, Unburied\, Sing \;and \;Salvage the Bones\, and the memoir \;< a href="https://cucatalog.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=6.1033 .0.0.1&\;type=Advanced&\;term=Men%20We%20Reaped&\;relation=ALL&am p\;by=TI&\;term2=ward\,%20jesmyn&\;relation2=ALL&\;by2=AU&\;bo ol1=AND&\;bool4=AND&\;limit=TOM=*&\;sort=RELEVANCE&\;page=0&am p\;searchid=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Men We Reaped. In 2017\, she became the first woman and first person of color to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice. A professor of creative writing at Tulane University and contributing editor to \;Vanity Fair\, Ward&rsqu o\;s many honors include the Library of Congress Prize for American Fictio n\, a MacArthur Genius Grant\, and a Strauss Living Award.
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