Robert Jones Jr.

Robert Jones Jr. is an American author who is known for his 2021 debut novel The Prophets which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction and won the 2022 Edmund White Award. Jones was previously known by his pen name "Son of Baldwin". Beginning in 2008, he had contributed to his blog, also called Son of Baldwin, in which he discussed topics of race, sexuality, gender and disability. In 2022, Jones retired the Son of Baldwin blog and social media community.