Tayari Jones

Published: Feb. 28, 2024, 8:01 a.m.

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Award-winning novelist Tayari Jones speaks on her childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was raised in the midst of the historic civil rights movement, women\\u2019s liberation, and the tragic Atlanta child murders. She reflects on the role feminism played in her home life and how she learned to love cooking by cooking things she liked. Plus, she tells us about her delectable red velvet cake.

 

Tayari Jones is a writer and novelist. Her 2018 novel An American Marriage won the Women\\u2019s Prize for Fiction, an NAACP Image Award, and was an Oprah\\u2019s Book Club selection. She was also a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow for Creative Arts.



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