The Post notes yesterday that native Washingtonian and author Edward Jones has been named a MacArthur Fellow. Jones, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Known World”, will receive $500,000 from the MacArthur Foundation, spread out quarterly over five years. Jones has lived in the D.C. area for most of his life. His first book, the short story collection “Lost in the City””, tells fourteen stories…