When I read 'Absalom, Absalom!,' I remember being really excited about it and telling all my friends they had to read it, especially my writer friends.

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• Jesmyn Ward:

  I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South

• Jesmyn Ward:

  When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main c

• Jesmyn Ward:

  By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time.

• Jesmyn Ward:

  I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

• Jesmyn Ward:

  Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The

• Jesmyn Ward:

  Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

• Jesmyn Ward:

  After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I ha

• Jesmyn Ward:

  My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were r

• Jesmyn Ward:

  While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a

• Jesmyn Ward:

  I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves