Who is the only woman to have won two National Book Awards for Fiction, receiving the honors for "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing"?
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Jesmyn Ward
Her work often focuses on the experiences of Black families in the rural Gulf Coast of Mississippi. In addition to her fiction, she wrote the acclaimed memoir 'Men We Reaped,' which explores the lives of five young men in her life who died prematurely.