An American Marriage is a powerful and timely novel by award-winning author Tayari Jones. Set in the contemporary South, it tells the story of Roy and Celestial, a newly married couple whose lives are upended when Roy is wrongfully convicted of a crime and sentenced to
Tayari Jones is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City. Jones was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.