Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Her first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois , was an Oprah's Book Club pick; Love Songs was long-listed for the National Book Award in Fiction, included in "10 Best Books of 2021" lists for The New York Times and The Washington Post , selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the Prize for First Novel of the Center for Fiction and nominated for the NAACP Image...See more

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Her first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois , was an Oprah's Book Club pick; Love Songs was long-listed for the National Book Award in Fiction, included in "10 Best Books of 2021" lists for The New York Times and The Washington Post , selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the Prize for First Novel of the Center for Fiction and nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Debut. Her fifth poetry collection The Age of Phillis was long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry and won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work: Poetry. A native southerner, Jeffers now lives and teaches on the prairie: she holds the Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Chair in English at the University of Oklahoma. See less