found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Jones, Edward Paul; Edward P. Jones; fiction writer; born 05 October 1950 in Arlington, Virginia, United States; graduated with a degree in English from a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts (1972); enrolled in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Virginia (1979-1981); worked eighteen years as proofreader and later as a writer summarizing tax cases for Tax Notes; nominated for a National Book Award and received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award; received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2004 and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story in 2010)