Jones, James (1921–1977)

US writer. His first novel, From Here to Eternity 1951, won over both readers and critics by its sheer narrative force (and was also made into a popular film in 1953). But his subsequent work, with the exception of The Thin Red Line 1962, was not that well received in literary circles.

He was born in Robinson, Illinois. He served in the US Army 1939–44, at one point attending the University of Hawaii in 1942; he attended New York University in 1945. He lived his later years in Paris, France, and Sagaponack, New York.