“I never thought about writing fiction”: An Interview with Edward P. Jones

Edward Paul Jones was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Though his mother, the head of his family, was uneducated and their life was a struggle, he did well at school. He attended Walker Jones Elementary School, Shaw Junior High, Cardozo High School, then the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia. He is best known as the author of two collections of short stories, Lost in the City (1992) and All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006), and of a novel, The Known World (2003). His sh...