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James Ramon Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) was an American novelist renowned for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath.
May 9, 2024 · James Jones (born November 6, 1921, Robinson, Illinois, U.S.—died May 9, 1977, Southampton, New York) was an American novelist best known for From Here to Eternity (1951), a novel about the peacetime army in Hawaii just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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James Ramon Jones was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. His wartime experiences inspired some of his most famous works. He witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to his first published novel, From Here to Eternity.
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- May 9, 1977
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James Jones has 49 books on Goodreads with 83682 ratings. James Jones’s most popular book is From Here to Eternity.
James Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) was a midwestern American author who wrote in the tradition of naturalism. His novels and short stories often celebrated human endurance. He is best known for the fictional portrayals of his real life accounts as a witness to the Pearl Harbor attacks and as a soldier in World War II .
James Jones (1921–1977), one of the major novelists of his generation, is known primarily as the author of fiction that probes the effects of World War II on the individual soldier.
In 1992, an eclectic band of renowned scholars and individuals from James Jones’s hometown (Robinson, Illinois) started what is now called The James Jones Literary Society, which claims almost 200 members internationally.
