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Edward P. Jones is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle prizes for fiction for his first novel, The Known World, a tale of African-American slave owners in the antebellum south. In reviews, Newsweek compared Jones's writing to that of Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, while the New York Times Book Review hailed The Known World as "an achievement of epic scope and architectural construction." His first book, Lost in the City, a collection of short stories, won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was short-listed for the 1992 National Book Award.