John Jakes
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Born March 31, 1932, John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer best known for American historical fiction.
The Civil War trilogy, both North and South, has sold millions of copies around the world.
He is also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles.
Jay Scotland, a pen name, has been used in a few articles.
Early life and education
Jakes was born in Chicago, Illinois. In the early 1950s, he first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college. Jakes received a degree in creative writing at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he graduated in 1953. He then received an M.A. Ohio State University's American literature professor John Lockwood contributed to the publication of this book. On August 23, 1952, He and Rachel, who had been married for 13 months at the time, appeared on the game show Beat the Clock. Rachel received a Sylvania "Jefferson" 20" screen television set though they were unable to finish the Bonus Round. Jakes immigrated to Dayton, Ohio, in 1961. He lived in the country for ten years and spent time as a copywriter for several advertising companies, although he wrote fiction at night and on weekends. He began writing full-time in 1971.
Writing career
"Your Number is Up!" Thrilling Wonder Stories, edited by Sam Merwin, appeared in pulp magazines edited by Howard Browne in 1950, "The Dreaming Trees (Fantastic Adventures, November), and "Your Number is Up." (December, Amazing Stories) In 1950, Jakes sold his first short story (a 1,500-word story).
28 more speculative fiction stories from 1951 to 1953 have appeared in the ISFDB. During the twenty years after graduation of college, Jakes wrote scores of essays and several books, many of which were fantasy fiction, science fiction, and westerns, as well as other forms of historical fiction.
He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose group of heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s and led by Lin Carter. The eight original members were chosen by fantasy credentials alone. They wanted to raise the profile and respectability of the "Sword and Sorcery" sub-genre (such as Brak the Barbarian stories by Jakes).
Jakes' popularity soared with the introduction of his Kent Family Chronicles, which became a best-selling American Bicentennial Series of books in the 1970s, with 55 million copies sold. He has since published several more popular works of historical fiction, many relating to American history, including the North and South trilogy about the US Civil War, which has sold ten million copies and been turned into an ABC-TV miniseries.
Jakes' stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol appeared at his home theater on Hilton Head Island in 1988. It has since become a hit among universities and regional theaters, as well as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
Jakes was named a Florida Literary Legend at the Florida Heritage Book Festival and Writers Conference in St. Augustine, Florida, in September 2013.