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MS HR44

Resolution

Official Source

Status

Passed

3/16/2018

Primary Sponsor

Jarvis Dortch

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Origin

House of Representatives

2018 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Commends novelist Jesmyn Ward for being the first woman and first person of color to win two National Book Awards for Fiction
  • Recognizes her receipt of the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant
  • Acknowledges her novels set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast including Salvage the Bones, Where the Line Bleeds, Men We Reaped, and Sing, Unburied, Sing (which won her second National Book Award in 2017)
  • Notes Ward's role as a creative writing professor at Tulane University teaching the next generation of writers
  • Directs distribution of the resolution to Ward and Capitol Press Corps members

Legislative Description

Jesmyn Ward; commend as an award-winning novelist and congratulate upon her many accomplishments.

Last Action

Enrolled Bill Signed

3/16/2018

Committee Referrals

Rules3/6/2018

Full Bill Text

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