Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. She is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, which won the NationalBook Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award; as well as five poetry collections, including the NAACP Image Award-winning The Age of Phillis, also nominated for the National Book Award.