![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with the film rights sold to Winfrey, the Women’s Prize for Fiction under her belt, and endorsements from the great and good, she’s just about managed to squeeze in an interview with Vogue around several sold-out appearances in the UK. For a long time she was a writer cut adrift, her first two books out of print by the time An American Marriage was published in 2018. Thanks to her unforgettable tale of a wrongfully imprisoned man, and the impact his incarceration has on his marriage, life has changed immeasurably over the past couple of years for the 49-year-old author from Atlanta, Georgia. That was the moment when I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, my book is an international bestseller.’” “I went over and the person reading said, ‘That’s my book!’ It blew my mind. “I was gathering my things, saw a copy of An American Marriage and thought, ‘How did it get all the way over there?’” Jones recalls, smiling. ![]() ![]() No matter that Oprah Winfrey had already picked Jones’s fourth novel, An American Marriage, for her career-making Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 or that Barack Obama had named it one of his picks of the year, it was only when Jones tried to steal a businessman’s copy as they went to board a plane that it hit home. It took a near altercation with a stranger at Heathrow Airport to finally convince Tayari Jones she was a world-renowned author. ![]()
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