Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 12 (1996) Winner
A. J. Verdelle
エー・ジェイ・ヴェルデル
A. J. Verdelle
Aliases:
A.J. Verdelle
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1960-01-01 （Washington, D.C.）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Washington, D.C. → Brooklyn, New York → Hudson Valley, New York
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, statistics consultant
- Active Years
- 1988-2025
- Affiliations
- Lesley University, Princeton University, Vermont College
- Influenced By
- Julia Peterkin
- Nominations
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | — | political science | BA | — | United States |
| University of Chicago | — | Applied Statistics | MA | — | United States |
| Bard College | — | creative writing | MFA | — | United States |
University of Chicago
political science
Degree:
BA
Year of Graduation:
1982
Country:
United States
University of Chicago
Applied Statistics
Degree:
MA
Year of Graduation:
1986
Country:
United States
Bard College
creative writing
Degree:
MFA
Year of Graduation:
1993
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Whiting Award | The Good Negress | — | Whiting Foundation | winner |
| — | Vursell Award | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | winner |
Whiting Award
1996
Work:
The Good Negress
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
winner
Vursell Award
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Good Negress
1995 NovelA debut novel chronicling the coming-of-age of young African American girl Stella Bradley in 1940s Richmond, Virginia, focusing on her education and identity.
racismeducationfamilyidentity
Bibliography
- The Good Negress
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- vernacular prose stylerich dialectal English
Legacy
Acclaimed African American novelist whose debut The Good Negress won the Whiting Award and was praised by Toni Morrison as 'truly extraordinary.'
Trivia
- Fourth-generation Washingtonian on her father's side, descendant of a freedmen's community in D.C.
- Daughter of A. Y. Jones and Patricia Howell Jones, both native Washingtonians.
- Founded a statistics consulting firm in Brooklyn in 1988.