ROBERT PENN WARREN AWARD FOR FICTION
Jesmyn Ward, 2020 recipient
Jesmyn Ward is a New York Times Bestselling and two-timing National Book Award Winning Author. She is the author of six novels: Navigate Your Stars; Flight of the Century: Writers Reflecting on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Case; Sing, Unburied, Sing; Men We Reaped: A Memoir; Salvage the Bones; and Where the Line Bleeds. Navigate Your Stars is the newest of her books to be released on April 7, 2020. Ward is currently a professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS:
Liza Wieland, 2017
Steve Yarbrough, 2015
Michael Knight, 2013
Elizabeth Cox, 2011
Moira Crone, 2009
Dorothy Allison, 2007
Donald Harrington, 2003
Mary Hood, 2001
Barry Hannah, 1999
Allen Wier, 1997
Madison Smartt Bell, 1995
Cormac McCarthy, 1993
Lee Smith, 1991