Mitchell S. Jackson won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and the 2021 National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. Jackson’s debut novel The Residue Years won a Whiting Award and The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. His essay collection Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family was named a best book of 2019 by fifteen publications as well as one of the best nonfiction books of the 21st century.

Jackson is also the author of Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion, described by the New York Times as “A coffee-table book that elevates the subject to the same decorative status as a Dior or Gucci monograph.” Fly was a USA Today bestseller and won a Booktique Award (honoring the Best Coffee table books of the year) in the lifestyle category.

Jackson’s other honors include a Doctor of Humane Letters from Lewis & Clark College; as well as 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 New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Time, Esquire, Marie Claire and Men’s Health, as well as in The New Yorker, Harpers, Harper’s Bazaar, The Paris Review, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Jackson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Esquire. He holds the John O. Whiteman Dean’s Distinguished Professorship in the English Department of Arizona State University.