Biography

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The Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning Louis Edwards has written four acclaimed novels, including Ten Seconds, N, Oscar Wilde Discovers America, and his much-anticipated latest, Ramadan Ramsey, published by Amistad/HarperCollins in August of 2021. The latter received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Booklist. The New York Times Book Review called it "a warm, hopeful novel...worth the wait." And Alice Randall praised Ramadan Ramsey as "an immediate global classic."

Born and raised in Lake Charles, LA, Edwards attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and Hunter College in New York City.  After graduating from LSU with a B.A. in Journalism, he moved to New Orleans, where he has had a decades-long career as a producer of music festivals and other special events.  He is currently the Chief Creative Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Festival Productions, Inc.-New Orleans which produces the world-famous New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (aka Jazz Fest).

Over the past 35 years, Edwards has worked on countless events, including the JVC Jazz Festival-New York and the Essence Music Festival, as well as festivals in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C, Los Angeles, Houston, Newport, and elsewhere. He lives in New Orleans.