{"id":11,"count":6,"description":"Mitchell S. Jackson is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize\u00a0in Feature Writing and the 2021 National Magazine Award\u00a0in Feature Writing. His debut novel <em>The Residue Years<\/em>\u00a0won a Whiting Award and The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. His essay collection <em>Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family<\/em>\u00a0was named a best book of 2019 by fifteen publications. Jackson is also the author of <em>Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion<\/em>, described by the <em>New York Times<\/em> as \u201cA coffee-table book that elevates the subject to the same decorative status as a Dior or Gucci monograph.\u201d Jackson\u2019s other honors include fellowships, grants, and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, the Cullman Center of the NYPL, the Lannan Foundation, PEN, and TED. His writing has been featured on the cover of the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>, the <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>, <em>Time<\/em>, <em>Esquire<\/em>, and <em>Men\u2019s Health<\/em>, as well as in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>Harpers<\/em>, <em>Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em>, <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0and elsewhere. Jackson is a contributing writer for the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>\u00a0and a columnist for <em>Esquire<\/em>. He holds the John O. Whiteman Dean\u2019s Distinguished Professorship in the English Department of Arizona State University.","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/section\/spring2026\/mitchelljackson\/","name":"Mitchell Jackson","slug":"mitchelljackson","taxonomy":"section","parent":15,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/section"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/15"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item?section=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}