Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American novelist and educator, born in 1954. Her books include Ghost Boys, a work of magical realism, and Ninth Ward, part of the Louisiana Girls Trilogy, along with Will's Race for Home and Towers Falling. Her adult novels include Magic City, a novel about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. She is the Founding Artistic Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and Narrative Studies at Arizona State University.