sentences:  Upon winning a MacArthur fellowship Jones noted that finishing her Bancroft-winning volume inspired her to write her third book, "The Dispossessed, America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present", which examines poverty in America across the boundaries of race and gender.That book would go on to win her a Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 1992 as well as finalist standing for the Lillian Smith Award for non-fiction.In 2001, Jones published "Creek Walking", a memoir of her childhood in Delaware during the 1950s.