Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of six books, including The Age of Phillis, which was long-listed for a National Book Award and won a NAACP Image Award for Literary Work, and the novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, which was long-listed for a National Book Award and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Jeffers is the Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Professor of English at University of Oklahoma.