Getting to Know the Author - Xaiver Jones

Michigan is full of historical figures. Recently the Telegram Newspaper dove deeper in meeting River Rouge native Black author Xavier Jones.

Book 0 by Xavier Jones is a collection of short stories, "That entails things that could happen to people, but more specifically Black people, things that can happen to everybody, but they happen to us, I described how they can happen to us, how that might effect somebody that comes from our environment," author Jones describes.

A play on words, Jones titled his novel Book 0 as homage to finishing his second book before his first. Jones has published two...