Tayari Jones

Person · Open Library

Born

1970-11-30

Works

25

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1931-09-12

Active to

2013-04-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

11

Total plays

122

From www.tayarijones.com Tayari Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia where she spent most of her childhood with the exception of the one year she and her family spent in Nigeria, West Africa. Although she has not lived in her hometown for over a decade, much of her writing centers on the urban south. “Although I now live in the northeast,” she explains, “my imagination lives in Atlanta.” Her first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a coming of age story set during the city’s infamous child mu

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,455x

2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,272x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,613x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,776x

5. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas

   · 2005 · cited 16,644x

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Quotes

• “When I first started writing, I was thinking of it as a book about mass incarceration, and mass incarceration is not a plot. It’s not a story. It’s not a character. I was at Harvard doing research on this subject, and I felt like I had a lot of information, but I had not yet found my story because I had to realize that I am a novelist. I’m not a sociologist. I’m not a documentarian. I’m not an ethnographer. And I found the story, actually, through eavesdropping…”
• “There’s also very little room for diverse expressions of black female identity. There is a place in society for a black man who comes off as uneducated but street-smart. That is respected in a certain kind of way. And there’s also the Obama model of the black man who’s been to the Ivy League. There’s a lot of room. But I feel like with black women, when it comes to credibility, that respectability is crucial.”
• “All of these characters are trying to figure out the extent to which they are allowed to be self-interested in the face of this larger cultural crisis…In many ways, it is a question of modern African-American life. What is the balance between your desires and your responsibilities?...”
• “I’ve always wanted to be a writer…And I have accepted that my niche is this quiet space. I’ve never been one of those writers who says writing is the hardest job in the world. Look at the jobs my grandparents had. Can I really say a job I’m able to do in my pajamas is the hardest job in the world? This is not a quiet title. And this is not a quiet story. I was a little intimidated by claiming this title for myself. But this novel caused me to challenge myself. I feel really good about it now.”

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