Edward P. Jones

Fiction by Edward P. Jones: “They caught him after he had killed the second man. The law would never connect him to the first murder. . . . It was almost as if, at least on the books the law kept, Caesar had got away with a free killing.”

Fiction, from 2003: “My name is Horace Perkins, he thought just as the sun set. My name is Horace Perkins and I worked many a year at the Pentagon.”