Jones, whose name, Tayari, means 'she is prepared' in Swahili, has two brothers and two half-sisters from a previous marriage of her father's. Jones recalls growing up following the civil rights movement and becoming acutely aware of her race after being given books featuring black children and playing with black dolls. Her father taught political science at Atlanta University, while her mother taught economics at Clark College. Both of her parents went on to obtain PhDs in social sciences and became professors at Clark College. Jones was born and raised in Cascade Heights, Atlanta, by her parents Mack and Barbara Jones, who both participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Jones was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City.
Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Tayari Jones (born November 30, 1970) is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection, and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction.
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