Primary Sources

Short Story Collections

1Lost in the City: Stories. New York: HarperPerennial, 1992. Rpt. Lost in the City: Stories. 20th Anniversary Edition. Introduction by Edward P. Jones. New York: Amistad, 2012. Print.

2All Aunt Hagar’s Children. 2006. New York: HarperPerennial, 2007. Print.

Uncollected Stories

3“Harvest.” Essence 7.7 (Nov. 1976): 84, 108-110, 112, 114-115, 128. Print.

4“The Farmers Palace.” Callaloo 11/13 (Feb.-Oct. 1981): 1-13. Print.

5“First Day.” Callaloo 14/15 (Feb.-May 1982): 152-57. Print.

6“Island.” Ploughshares 9.2-3 (1983): 53-71. Print.

Essays

7“A Sunday Portrait.” Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography. Ed. Deborah Wills. New York: New Press, 1994. 34-40. Print.

8“Disappearing.” Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I. Ed. Daniel Halpern. New York: Ecco Press, 1994. 98-100. Rpt. in Who’s Writing This? Fifty-Five Writers on Humor, Courage, Self-Loathing, and the Creative Process. Ed. Daniel Halpern. New York: HarperPerennial, 2009. 98-100. Print.

9“Introduction to ‘The Flowers’ by Alice Walker.” You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe. Eds. Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. 580-81. Print.

10“In the Name of the Mother.” Essence 36.8 (December 2005): 140-42. Print.

11“Introduction.” New Stories from the South—2007. Ed. Edward P. Jones. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007. vii-xi. Print.

12“Introduction.” Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril. Ed. Kevin Merida. New York: PublicAffairs, 2007. xi-xvi. Print.

13“PEN/Hemingway Prize Keynote Address Delivered at the John F. Kennedy Library, 1 April 2007.” The Hemingway Review 27.1 (2007): 7-13. Print.

14“Foreword.” Black Boy. By Richard Wright. New York: HarperPerennial Modern Classics, 2008. vii-x. Print.

15“Stamford.” Illuminating Fiction: Today’s Best Writers of Fiction. Ed. Sherry Ellis. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2009. 2-8. Print.

16“Shacks.” The New Yorker 13 and 20 June 2011: 94. Print.

17“Introduction.” Notes of a Native Son. By James Baldwin. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. vii-xiv. Print.

Selected Interviews

18Als, Hilton. “Edward P. Jones: The Art of Fiction No. 222.” The Paris Review 207 (Winter 2013). Web. 14 Feb. 2024.

19Burns, Carole. “Edward P. Jones.” Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything in Between. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008. 64, 162, 191, 194, 205. Print.

20Elam, Angela. “To Make a Story: An Interview with Edward P. Jones.” New Letters 74.1 (2007): 121-35. Print

21Ellis, Sherry. “Edward P. Jones: Imagined Worlds.” Illuminating Fiction: Today’s Best Writers of Fiction. Ed. by Sherry Ellis. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2009. 9-19. Print.

22Fleming, Robert. “Just Stating the Case is ‘More Than Enough’: PW Talks with Edward P. Jones.” Publishers Weekly 11 Aug. 2003: 254. Print.

23Golden, Marita. “Edward P. Jones.” The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing. Ed. Marita Golden. New York: Random House, 2011. 47-60. Print.

24Graham, Maryemma. “An Interview with Edward P. Jones.” African American Review 42.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2008): 421-38. Print.

25Jackson, Lawrence P. “An Interview with Edward P. Jones.” African American Review 34.1 (Spring 2000): 95-103. Print.

26Johnson, Sarah Anne. “Untold Stories.” The Writer 117.8 (2004): 20-23. Print.

27---. “The Image You Woke Up With.” The Very Telling: Conversations With American Writers. Lebanon: UP of New England, 2006. 82-91. Print.

28Packer, ZZ. “ZZ Packer talks with Edward P. Jones.” The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers. Ed. Vendela Vida. San Francisco: Believer Books, 2005. 133-57. Print.

Secondary Sources

Monographs

29Coleman, James W. Understanding Edward P. Jones. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2016. Print.

30Wood, Daniel Davis, ed. Edward P. Jones: New Essays. Melbourne: Whetstone Press, 2011. Print.

31Ramsby, Kenton. The Geographies of African American Short Fiction. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2022. Print.

Essays

32Brown, Jessica M. “Narrating Washington, D.C. from the Margins: Urban Space and Cultural Identity in Lost in the City and The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears.” Berkeley Undergraduate Journal 23.2 (2011): 1-35. Print.

33Fernandez, Jose O. “The Decline of the City: Naturalizing the Black and Latinx Urban Underclass in the Short Fiction of Edward P. Jones and Junot Díaz.” Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black & Latinx Literatures. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2022. 148-179. Print.

34Gonzalez, Christopher. “Spatialization and Deictic Shifts in Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar’s Children.” Edward P. Jones: New Essays. Ed. Daniel Davis Wood. Melbourne: Whetstone Press, 2011. 185-202. Print.

35Graver, Elizabeth. “All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Edward P. Jones.” B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites. Eds. John Plotz and Sharon Marcus. New York: Columbia UP, 2021. 184-87. Print.

36Henry, Lorraine M. “Mr. Jones’s Neighborhoods: The Triad of Place, History, and Memory in Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar’s Children.” Edward P. Jones: New Essays. Ed. Daniel Davis Wood. Melbourne: Whetstone Press, 2011. 161-84. Print.

37Kennedy, J. Gerald and Robert Beuka. “Imperilled Communities in Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City and Dagoberto Gilb’s The Magic of Blood.” The Yearbook of English Studies 31 (2001): 10-23. Print.

38Lénárt-Muszka, Zsuzsanna. “Coming of Age and Urban Landscapes in Edward P. Jones’s ‘Spanish in the Morning’ and ‘The Girl Who Raised Pigeons.’” HJEAS: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 25.1 (2019). Web. 14 Feb. 2024.

39MacKenzie, Cameron. “The City of Being: Space, Trauma, and Identity in Lost in the City.” Edward P. Jones: New Essays. Ed. Daniel Davis Wood. Melbourne: Whetstone Press, 2011. 93-114. Print.

40Maucione, Jessica. “Neighborhood as the New Lost World in Lost in the City.” Edward P. Jones: New Essays. Ed. Daniel Davis Wood. Melbourne: Whetstone Press, 2011. 75-91. Print.

41McCarron, Bill. “Most Lost in Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 36.2 (March 2006): 11-12. Print.

42Moisy, Amélie. “Edward P. Jones’s D.C., Where a Southern Past Informs the Present.” Facets of the American South: Essays on a Peculiar Region. Eds. Gérald Préher and Frédérique Spill. Valencia: Biblioteca Javier Coy d’estudis nord-americans, 2024. 101-13. Print.

43---. “L’avent et l’après: ‘Blindsided’ d’Edward P. Jones.” ‘Voyons un autre Noël’ (C. Dickens) : Noël dans la littérature de langue anglaise. Ed. Gérald Préher. Spec. issue of Mélanges de Science Religieuse 75.4 (Oct.-Dec. 2018): 43-64. Print.

44---. “Murder, Mystery, Suspense and Doubt in Word for Word’s ‘All Aunt Hagar’s Children.’” The Renewal of the Crime Play on the Contemporary Anglophone Stage. Spec. issue of Coup de Théâtre 32 (2018): 59-79. Print.

45Mosby, William Michael. “Lost in the City: Edward P. Jones’s Dilemma of Contemporary Entitlement.” The Explicator 73.2 (Apr-June 2015): 144-49. Print.

46Ramsby, Kenton. “Edward P. Jones—The Neighborhood Preservationist.” Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies 5.2 (Spring 2020): 40-52. Print.

47---. “Geocoding Edward P. Jones’s Black D.C. New Yorker Short Stories.” The South Carolina Review 46.2 (Spring 2014): 95-102. Print.

48Rolston, Simon. “Shame and the Ex-Convict: The New Jim Crow, African American Literature, and Edward P. Jones’s ‘Old Boys, Old Girls.’” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d’Études Américaines 48.1 (Apr. 2018): 95-119. Print.

49Saunders, James Robert. “A World of Irony in the Fiction of Edward P. Jones.” Hollins Critic 44.1 (Feb. 2007): 1-10. Print.

50Scott, A.O. “Edward P. Jones’s Carefully Quantified Literary World.” New York Times Book Review 16 Aug. 2020. Web. 14 Feb. 2024.

51Torday, Daniel. “Young Boys and Old Lions: Fatalism in the Stories of Edward P. Jones.” Literary Imagination 11.3 (2009): 349-65. Print.

52Wood, Daniel Davis. “Beyond City Limits: Edward P. Jones’s Uncollected Short Fiction.” Edward P. Jones: New Essays. Ed. Daniel Davis Wood. Melbourne: Whetstone Press, 2011. 205-11. Print.

53---. “To See the Lives of Others Through the Eyes of God: The Affectivity of Literary Aesthetics in the Short Stories of Edward P. Jones.” Journal of the Short Story in English 66 (2016): 31-47. Print.