Tayari Jones
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Tayari Jones is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Jones is a graduate of Spelman
Jones in 2010
Atlanta murders of 1979–1981
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The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, are a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, United States between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two-year per
Tayari Jones
…Jones and her sisters were raised apart and they served as inspiration for Jones' novel Silver Sparrow. Jones was in elementary school during the Atlanta murders of 1979–1981 and described it as "the most significant event of my childhood." Two of her classmates at Oglethorpe Elementary were murdered. Jones's experience…
DeKalb County police officers recover the body of a victim of the Atlanta murders