Gayl Jones

Books on prize lists

• The Unicorn Woman

  Written in English

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  Pulitzer 2025 · Finalist

  The Unicorn Woman

  The Unicorn Woman

  Gayl Jones · 75 when first published

  Novel · 176 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In the early 1950s a Black army veteran, back in the Jim Crow South after World War II, becomes fixated on a woman with a spiraled horn whom he sees at a carnival sideshow near his Kentucky hometown.

• Palmares

  Written in English

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  Pulitzer 2022 · Finalist

  Palmares

  Palmares

  Gayl Jones · 72 when first published

  Novel · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In seventeenth-century colonial Brazil, an enslaved girl who has been taught to read grows up on Portuguese plantations and flees to Palmares, a settlement founded by people who escaped slavery.