Rodney Jones
Poet, Author
1950 –
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Who is Rodney Jones?
Rodney Jones is an American poet and professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Jones was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter I.B. Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Southeast Booksellers Association Award, and a Harper Lee Award.
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- Born
- Feb 11, 1950
Alabama - Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Alabama
English Literature
( - 1971) - Master of Fine Arts, North Carolina Central University
Creative writing
( - 1973)
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Alabama
- Employment
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Lived in
- Alabama
(1950/02/11 - ) - Illinois
- Alabama
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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