Kaylie Jones
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Kaylie Jones is an American
novelist. She was raised in Paris
.
-winning novelist James Jones
(From Here to Eternity
1951).
Lies My Mother Never Told Me, a memoir, describes her life growing up in Paris and Sagaponack as the child of a celebrated author and a beautiful, competitive and witty mother, Gloria Jones, a former actress and a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe, 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.
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. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University
and Columbia University
's
School of the Arts
.
Her books include:
In 1998, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
became a Merchant Ivory Film. The film was directed by James Ivory
and starred Leelee Sobieski
as Channe (the protagonist in the novel).
Jones helped found the MFA Program in Writing at Long Island University's Southampton campus and the MFA Program in Writing at Wilkes University. She currently teaches memoir, literature and fiction writing at both universities.
In 2011, she was instrumental in publishing an uncensored edition of James Jones' From Here to Eternity.
United States
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novelist. She was raised in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
Background
Kaylie Jones is an American writer, memoirist and novelist. She is the daughter of National Book AwardNational Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
-winning novelist James Jones
James Jones (author)
James Jones was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath.-Life and work:...
(From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the...
1951).
Lies My Mother Never Told Me, a memoir, describes her life growing up in Paris and Sagaponack as the child of a celebrated author and a beautiful, competitive and witty mother, Gloria Jones, a former actress and a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe, who became an editor at Doubleday with her friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
. Gloria Jones's close circle of friends included Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in The Big Sleep and Dark Passage ,...
, Betty Comden
Betty Comden
Betty Comden was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century...
, Phyllis Newman
Phyllis Newman
Phyllis Newman is an American actress and singer. She was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.-Early life:...
, and Ellen Adler, the daughter of Stella Adler
Stella Adler
Stella Adler was an American actress and an acclaimed acting teacher, who founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City and the The Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles with long-time protege Joanne Linville, who continues to teach and furthers Adler's legacy...
. Kaylie Jones's relationship with her mother became more combative after her father's death in 1977.
She has taught in the public schools of New York City through Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Teachers & Writers Collaborative is a New York City-based organization that sends writers and other artists into schools. It was founded in 1967 by a group of writers and educators including Herbert Kohl, June Jordan, Muriel Rukeyser, Grace Paley, and Anne Sexton, who believed that writers could...
and has organized a symposium at Southampton College in memory of her father, who died in 1977. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...
and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
's
School of the Arts
Columbia University School of the Arts
The Columbia University School of the Arts , also known simply as the School of the Arts or as SoA, is the division of the university that offers Master of Fine Arts degrees in Film, Visual Arts, Theatre Arts, and Writing, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Film Studies...
.
Her books include:
- As Soon as It Rains (Doubleday, 1986)
- Quite the Other Way (Doubleday, 1989)
- A Soldier's Daughter Never CriesA Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (novel)A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries is semi-autobiography of Kaylie Jones, who was daughter of James Jones. This is a story about childhood in '60s Paris, then high school in '70s US, and she described difference of culture of France and US....
(Bantam Books, 1990) - Celeste Ascending (HarperCollins, 2000)
- Speak Now (Akashic, 2003)
- Lies My Mother Never Told Me (HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2009)
In 1998, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (film)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries is a French/U.S. film directed by James Ivory and written by James Ivory & Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It stars Leelee Sobieski, Jesse Bradford, Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey and Virginie Ledoyen...
became a Merchant Ivory Film. The film was directed by James Ivory
James Ivory (director)
James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
and starred Leelee Sobieski
Leelee Sobieski
Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski , known professionally as Leelee Sobieski, is an American actress. Sobieski achieved recognition in her mid-teens for her performance in the 1998 film Deep Impact...
as Channe (the protagonist in the novel).
Jones helped found the MFA Program in Writing at Long Island University's Southampton campus and the MFA Program in Writing at Wilkes University. She currently teaches memoir, literature and fiction writing at both universities.
In 2011, she was instrumental in publishing an uncensored edition of James Jones' From Here to Eternity.