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J.R. Ward, the best-selling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, is set to return with a four-book romantasy series titled Kingdoms of the Compass.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Jesmyn Ward about the new book, which she modeled after Dante's "Inferno." In her new novel set before the Civil War, author Jesmyn Ward drops readers into ...

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The author—who won National Book Awards for ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ and ‘Salvage the Bones’—is out with ‘Let Us Descend.’ ...

For the first few years that National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward was writing her new novel, Let Us Descend, she says she really struggled to tap into her main character. Annis is an enslaved ...

Jesmyn Ward, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, in, Pass Christian, Mississippi, on Tuesday September 19, 2017. (Photo courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) ...