Robert Jones Jr.

About

Robert Jones Jr. is an American author who is known for his 2021 debut novel The Prophets which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction and won the 2022 Edmund White Award honoring debut works by LGBT writers. Jones was previously known by his pen name "Son of Baldwin". Beginning in 2008 he had contributed to his blog, also call Son of Baldwin, in which topics of race, sexuality, gender and disability were discussed. In 2022, Jones retired the Son of Baldwin blog and social media community. Jones' short story "Freedom Is Not for Myself Alone" was included in the anthology The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.