Just Buffalo Literary Center presents
BABEL featuring Tayari Jones
Thursday, April 29, 2027
7:30 pm
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Author Reception for Premium Access ticketholders starts at 6:30pm

Join Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL Author Series for an evening with Tayari Jones.

Over the course of her award-winning career, Tayari Jones’s novels and essays have explored the vagaries of birth and fate, the bitterness of injustice, and the persistent power of love. From her debut, Leaving Atlanta, to her latest novel, the Oprah Book Club Selection and New York Times bestseller Kin, Jones brings warmth and wisdom to themes of family, friendship, and what it means to be a girl and a woman in the American South. Hailed as “one of the most important voices of her generation” by Essence and as “a bard of the modern South” by the Los Angeles Times, her vivid characters, trademark humor, and gorgeous prose have won her acclaim from readers and critics alike.

Previous books include An American Marriage—which was also an Oprah’s Book Club Selection—Silver Sparrow and The Unteling.

Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.