Edward Jones gave the 2009 Annie Sonnenblick lecture on April 17, 2009 at Wesleyan University. Fiction writer Edward P. Jones received the Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel The Known World, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award. His first book, Lost in the City, was a National Book Award finalist as well, and won the PEN/Hemingway Prize. He has had stories published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, and Callaloo. His most recent work is All Aunt Hagar’s Children, a collection of short stories. He is a MacArthur Fellow, and has taught creative writing at the University of Virginia, George Mason University, the University of Maryland and Princeton University.