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The Known World

Release Date: TBA 2006

March 14, 2005
Pulitzer Prize winning novel heads to big screen

John Wells Productions has optioned Edward P. Jones Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World for a big screen adaptation. Anna Deavere Smith will write the adaptation, and will produce the film along with Wells. The historical novel is set amongst a little-known segment of time in which free black Americans owned slaves themselves.
Source: Variety

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