Jo Ann Beard
Biography
Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard is the author of the groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays, THE BOYS OF MY YOUTH, and the novels IN ZANESVILLE and FESTIVAL DAYS. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She has received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
Jo Ann Beard
