Jo Ann Beard

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Jo Ann Beard


Born
Chicago, Illinois, The United States

Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Average rating: 3.96 · 12,755 ratings · 1,791 reviews · 14 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Boys of My Youth

4.12 avg rating — 5,737 ratings — published 1998 — 31 editions
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In Zanesville

3.62 avg rating — 4,449 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions
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Festival Days

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Cheri

4.25 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions
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The Fourth State of Matter

4.64 avg rating — 277 ratings — published 1996
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The Collected Works of Jo A...

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The Tomb of Wrestling

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Untitled Beard Ya Novel

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The Boys of My Youth: Stories

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“...within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.”
Jo Ann Beard, In Zanesville

“We sit silently in our living room. He watches the mute television screen and I watch him. The planes and ridges of his face are more familiar to me than my own. I understand that he wishes even more than I do that he still loved me.”
Jo Ann Beard, The Boys of My Youth

“Sometimes when you're cruel to others, it's because you've gotten yourself into a situation you can't get out of.”
Jo Ann Beard

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