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  • Jesmyn Ward
    Jesmyn Ward
    / Novels and nonfiction works

    In 2026 Ward published On Witness and Respair, a collection of nonfiction pieces that included her Vanity Fair essay on her husband’s death as well as pieces on her father, the legacy of Hurricane Katrina, raising a Black son in an era of political divisiveness and racial violence, and


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    In 2026 Ward published On Witness and Respair, a collection of nonfiction pieces that included her Vanity Fair essay on her husband’s death as well as pieces on her father, the legacy of Hurricane Katrina, raising a Black son in an era of political divisiveness and racial violence, and


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