Tayari Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tayari Jones

American writer

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1970

Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Tayari Jones (born November 30, 1970 in Atlanta, Georgia) is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection, and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction.
She is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University.
She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, and recently returned to her hometown after a decade in New York City.
Jones was appointed an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University (effective July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2025).