how we fight for our lives author

Saeed Jones is the author of How We Fight for Our Lives. The memoir, published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster, chronicles Jones’s coming of age as a Black gay man in the American South, weaving personal memory with broader themes of race, sexuality, family, and identity. It has received widespread critical acclaim and several major awards, including the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2019) and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography (2020).