Constructing a Nervous System

Constructing a Nervous System is a 2022 memoir by Margo Jefferson. It won the 2023 Rathbone Folio Prize.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Constructing a Nervous System

Author	Margo Jefferson
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Publication date	2022
ISBN	9781524748173

The book was a finalist for the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction in 2023.^[6] and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.^[7]

References

1. "2023 Prize". The Writers' Prize. Retrieved February 11, 2024. We are delighted to announce that the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year is Constructing a Nervous System ...
2. Shaffi, Sarah (March 27, 2023). "Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize". The Guardian. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
3. Chakraborty, Abhrajyoti (May 1, 2022). "Constructing a Nervous System review – a deeply personal account of black female identity". The Observer. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
4. Sandstrom, Karen (April 22, 2022). "In critic Margo Jefferson's memoir, a life is refracted through art". Washington Post. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
5. Young, Molly (April 12, 2022). "Margo Jefferson's New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways". The New York Times. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
6. "2023 Winners". Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence. Reference & User Services Association (RUSA). October 3, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
7. Varno, David (March 24, 2023). "Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved April 1, 2023.