Author (6-Nov-1921 — 9-May-1977)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Steven R. Carter. James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist Master. University of Illinois Press. 1998. 191pp.

George Garrett. James Jones. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1984. 218pp.

James R. Giles. James Jones. Twayne. 1981. 228pp.

George Hendrick (editor). To Reach Eternity: The Letters of James Jones. Random House. 1989. 380pp.

George Hendrick; Helen Howe; Don Sackrider. James Jones and the Handy Writers' Colony. SIU Press. 2001. 156pp.

Frank MacShane. Into Eternity: The Life of James Jones, American Writer. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1985.

Willie Morris. James Jones: A Friendship. Doubleday. 1978. 259pp.

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3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.353)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.794)

8. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.130)

9. Contemporary Novelists (pp.692-94)

10. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.387)

11. Twentieth Century Authors, First Supplement (p.500)

12. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.536)

13. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.381)

14. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.8)

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