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Book review the love songs of web dubois5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Du Bois was longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. The Age of Phillis was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry and won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry), while The Love Songs of W.E.B. In 2018, Jeffers received the Harper Lee Award for Literary Distinction. Du Bois, an epic novel that focuses on protagonist Ailey Pearl Garfield’s coming of age while also narrating the story of her African, European, and Creek ancestors. This is especially true in The Love Songs of W.E.B. Having grown up in North Carolina and Georgia, Jeffers often incorporates her background as a Black Southerner into her work. ![]() Her work often involves deep historical research, especially her 2020 poetry collection The Age of Phillis, which combines archival records with imagination to tell the story of 18th-century African American poet Phillis Wheatley. ![]() Prior to the novel’s publication, Jeffers worked primarily as a poet, publishing five collections of poetry since 2000. Du Bois, published in August 2021, is Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s debut novel. ![]()
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