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Jonathan Escoffery is an American writer. His debut novel, If I Survive You, was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction and shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, among other honors. The novel was well received by critics with reviews applauding Escoffery's humor, narrative style and exploration of identity in the immigrant experience. Biography Escoffery was born in Houston, Texas, to Jamaican parents and grew up in Miami, Florida. Escoffery graduated from Florida International University and received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota. As of 2022, he was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Escoffery has cited Sandra Cisneros, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen as literary influences. He worked as the program coordinator for the writing center Grubstreet in Boston, where he started the Boston Writers of Color group. His short story "Under the Ackee Tree", which was published in The Paris Review, was awarded the Plimpton Prize. Awards and honors In 2020, Escoffery received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In September 2022, If I Survive You was the Belletrist Book Club pick. Booklist included it on their 2022 "Booklist Editors' Choice list for adult books", as well as their 2023 list of the "Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts". Bibliography Short fiction Collections —— (2022). If I Survive You. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9781982191818. References Further reading "Jackson Howard and Jonathan Escoffery on Publishing, Writing and Humor". Harper's Bazaar. 2023-10-24. Retrieved 2023-10-26. External links Jonathan Escoffery on How to Build Trust with Readers (Interview with LitHub) “A Lot of People Can’t Stomach It.” Jonathan Escoffery on the Paradox of Writing About Poverty (Interview with LitHub) Jonathan Escoffery Talks About How Belonging Shifts Across Generations (Interview with LitHub) Jonathan Escoffery on Playing Out Some of His Worst Fears on the Page (Interview with LitHub) Jonathan Escoffery on How Nella Larsen’s Helga Crane Influenced His Debut Collection (Interview with LitHub). Discover the Jonathan Escoffery popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jonathan Escoffery books.