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About Mitchell Jackson

Mitchell S. Jackson is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and the 2021 National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. Jackson is the critically acclaimed author of The Residue Years Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family and John of Watts (to be published soon). His other honors include fellowships grants and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Creative Capital the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library the Lannan Foundation the Ford Foundation PEN America TED the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Center for Fiction. His writing has been featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review Time Esquire and Marie Claire as well as in The New Yorker Harpers The New York Times The New York Times Magazine The Paris Review The Guardian The Washington Post Magazine Harpers Bazaar and elsewhere. Jacksons nonfiction book Survival Math was published in 2019 and named a best book of the year by fifteen publications including NPR Time The Paris Review The Root Kirkus Reviews and Buzzfeed. His next novel John of Watts will be published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. Jackson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine covers race and culture as the first Black columnist in the history of Esquire and serves as the John O. Whiteman Deans Distinguished Professor in the English Department of Arizona State University.