James Jones

James Jones was born in Robinson, Illinois, in 1921, the son of a dentist, in a family impoverished by the Depression. He enlisted at eighteen, moved from the air corps to the infantry, was in Hawaii on the morning of the Japanese attack and fought at Guadalcanal, where he was wounded in the head. He lost his father during the war. It was in uniform, while reading Thomas Wolfe, that he decided to write. Settled in Paris from 1958 to 1974, he produced eleven books, including a war trilogy completed after his death. He died in 1977 in Southampton, New York State, at the age of fifty-five.

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• NovelFrom Here to EternityJames Jones · 1951Literature