BIOGRAPHICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ABOUT JAMES JONES

"I also learned that in spite of all the training you get and precautions you take to keep yourself alive, its largely a matter of luck that decided whether or not you get killed. It doesn't make any difference who you are, how tough you are, how nice a guy you might be, or how much you may know, if you happen to be at a certain spot at a certain time, you get it. --James Jones, letter to his brother, Jeff Jones, from Guadalcanal, January 28, 1943

Articles

James Jones: His Evolution of a Soldier (Senior Project by Former Marine) - By Robert L. McMahon

The Humanity of the Machine - By Kenneth Tindall

Kenneth Tindall's Paris Reminiscences, Part II

James Jones, Eleven Appreciations

The James Jones Photo Album

James Jones and Family: Photos from Life magazine compiled by Thomas J. Wood, archivist of The Handy Colony Collection in the Brookens Library Archives at the University of Illinois, Springfield.

Photos below courtesty of Thomas J. Wood.

James Jones leaving automobile.

1955 photo of Jones.

A 1955 portrait, taken at Jones's home in Marshall.

Candid, 1953.

Informal with camera.This photo was take at the Colony in Marshall, Illinois in 1952, and shows Jones at his trailer.

This is a portait of Jones from spring of 1955.

Jones receiving the keys for his 1952 Chrysler Imperial in the summer of 1951. It cost $4791.28.

James Jones in uniform behind his home in Robinson, Ilinois, fall 1943.

James Jones in the Handy home, ca. 1946.

James Jones in his trailer in Tucson, Arizona, working on Some Came Running, 1953.

The author in the Handy home in Robinson, circa 1946.

A larger version of the photo above.

Photos of the Handy Writers Colony, Including James Jones' Home, Provided by Bill and Beth Schultz, Marshall, Illinois

Television Documentary About Jones

James Jones: Reveille to Taps: 1984 television documentary.