"I have always had a saying that I found it peculiar that parents were willing to shell out for seven years or eight for a kid to become a doctor; but they weren't willing to shell out for the same period for a kid to become a writer. And it takes at least as long to become a writer as it does a doctor." --James Jones, in a letter to the father of a young man who wanted to become a writer
Web Site for Handy Writers' Colony Archives at The University of Illinois-Springfield
The Introduction to James Jones in
Illinois: A Guide to the Handy Writers' Colony Collection
Former Handy Student Recalls Colony Days
Photographs of the Handy Writers' Colony.
James Jones: Reveille to Taps: 1984 television documentary.
"James Jones and His Angel," by A.B.C. Whipple, Life magazine, May 7, 1951.