Jeffrey Blount: Award-winning author and director to be featured at March book festival

Jeffrey Blount’s latest novel, Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way (Beaufort Books), has taken the literary world by storm, earning the 2024 National Indie Excellence Award for African American Fiction, the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award for African American Fiction, the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for General Fiction, and the 2024 American Book Fest Best Book Award for African American Fiction.