Jo Ann Beard is the author of a novel, In Zanesville (2011), and a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth (1999). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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