. John Jakes

John Jakes.

John William Jakes (born on March 31, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of fiction, best known for American historical fiction. John Jakes first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950s. He studied creative writing at DePauw University, Greencastje, Indiana, graduating in 1953.

After earning an M.A. in American literature from Ohio State University, he published several stories and novels over the next 20 years, many of them fantasy fiction, science fiction and westerns and other sorts of historical fiction, while working in the advertising industry. In 1971, he began to write full time.

During this time, he was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords anthologies. He gained widespread popularity with the publication of his Kent Family Chronicles, which became a bestselling Bicentennial Series of books in the mid to late 1970s, selling 55 million copies.

He has since published several more popular works of historical fiction, most dealing with American History, including the North and South Trilogy about the U.S. Civil War, which sold 10 million copies and was turned into an ABC-TV miniseries. Jakes lives in South Carolina and Florida with his wife, Rachel, to whom he has been married since 1951.

Lees ook: John Jakes, a Critical Companian door Mary Ellen Jones.

Lees ook: American Dreams door John Jakes.

Lees ook: Suzanna of the Alamo, a true Story door John Jakes en Paul Bacon.

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H.V. Anderz.

Zie ook: North and South.

Zie ook: Website van John Jakes.

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