Constructing a Nervous System
AuthorMargo Jefferson
PublisherPantheon Books
Publication date
2022
ISBN9781524748173

Constructing a Nervous System is a 2022 memoir by Margo Jefferson. It won the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize.[1][2][3][4][5]

The book was a finalist for the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for non-fiction in 2023 (won by Ed Yong's An Immense World).[6] and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (won by Timothy Bewes's Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age).[7]

References

  1. ↑ "2023 Prize". The Rathbones Folio Prize. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  2. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (March 27, 2023). "Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize". The Guardian. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  3. ↑ Chakraborty, Abhrajyoti (May 1, 2022). "Constructing a Nervous System review – a deeply personal account of black female identity". The Observer. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  4. ↑ Sandstrom, Karen (April 22, 2022). "In critic Margo Jefferson's memoir, a life is refracted through art". Washington Post. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  5. ↑ Young, Molly (April 12, 2022). "Margo Jefferson's New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways". The New York Times. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  6. ↑ "2023 Winners". Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence. Reference & User Services Association (RUSA). October 3, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  7. ↑ Varno, David (March 24, 2023). "Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
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