Jesmyn Ward is an American novelist and a professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel Salvage the Bones, a story about familial love and community in facing Hurricane Katrina.
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1 novel by Jesmyn Ward mapped on Map A Story, each with an interactive map of the book's real-world locations — including history, what's there today, and visitable landmarks.