Honorée F. Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is an essayist, novelist, poet, and scholar. She has published five books of poetry, including The Age of Phillis, which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry and the Lenore Marshall Prize in Poetry, was a finalist for the George Washington Prize in History, and was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry. Jeffers’s first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, was an Oprah’s Book Club pick, featured on President Barack Obama’s reading list, and listed as a “Ten Best Books of the Year” by The New York Times. Love Songs won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature. Love Songs was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction. Jeffers is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the MacDowell Colony, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Witter Bynner Foundation through the Library of Congress, among others.