Occupation Writer Siblings Jamie Jones Spouse Kevin Heisler | Name Kaylie Jones Role Writer | |
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Education Wesleyan UniversityColumbia University School of the Arts Notable works A Soldier's Daughter Never CriesLies My Mother Never Told Me Movies A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Books A Soldier's Daughter Never Cri, Speak now, Celeste Ascending, Lies My Mother Never Tol, The Anger Meridian Similar People James Jones, James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ||
Grandparents Ada M. Jones, Ramon Jones Parents James Jones, Gloria Jones | ||
Kaylie jones in conversation with bill landauer author of we are all crew
Kaylie Jones (born 5 August 1960 in Paris, France) is an American writer, memoirist and novelist.
Contents
- Kaylie jones in conversation with bill landauer author of we are all crew
- The anger meridian kaylie jones
- Biography
- Personal life
- Works
- References
The anger meridian kaylie jones
Biography
Jones is the daughter of National Book Award-winning novelist James Jones (From Here to Eternity), and Gloria Jones, a former actress and stand-in for Marilyn Monroe. Kaylie Jones grew up in Paris, France and Sagaponack, New York. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia University School of the Arts.
She has taught in the public schools of New York City through Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and has organized a symposium at Southampton College in memory of her father, who died in 1977.
In 1998, Jones' book A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (published in 1990) became a Merchant Ivory film. The film was directed by James Ivory and starred Leelee Sobieski as Channe (the protagonist in the novel).
Lies My Mother Never Told Me (2009), a memoir, describes her life as the child of a celebrated author and a beautiful, competitive and witty mother, who became an editor at Doubleday with her friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Gloria Jones's close circle of friends included Lauren Bacall, Betty Comden, Phyllis Newman, and Ellen Adler, the daughter of Stella Adler. Kaylie Jones's relationship with her mother became more combative after her father's death in 1977.
In 2011, Jones was instrumental in publishing an uncensored edition of James Jones' From Here to Eternity. Her essay, "Judite", appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (2013), published by W. W. Norton & Company.
Jones helped found the MFA Program in Writing at Long Island University's, which is now SUNY Stony Brook Southampton Campus, and the MFA Program in Writing at Wilkes University. She teaches memoir, literature and fiction writing at both universities.
Personal life
Jones is married to Kevin Heisler and has a daughter, Eyrna, born in 1997.