A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
by Kaylie Jones
List Price: $12.00
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0060977558
Publisher: HarperCollins
Kaylie Jones was born in Paris, France in 1960 and attended French schools
until her family returned to the U.S. in 1974. A Soldier's Daughter
Never Cries, her third novel, is loosely based on her experiences
growing up in an expatriate, artistic home as the daughter of famed novelist
James Jones. She originally began writing this story as her undergraduate
honors thesis at Wesleyan University.
Jones' first novel, As Soon As It Rains (Doubleday), was
published in 1986 when she was working at Poets & Writers, Inc. in the
Reading/Workshops Program. There, she fell in love with the poetry of
underprivileged children, written in workshops she helped to fund. As
a result of this work, she was appointed as a Writer in Residence in the
NYC public schools, where she continues to work today.
A stay in Jamaica when she was two was interrupted by an evacuation due
to the Cuban missile crisis, and this created in her a fascination for
all things Russian. Jones began to study Russian as her third language
at age eight, and continued to study the language and literature through
her undergraduate and graduate years. She spent six weeks at the Pushkin
Institute for Russian Studies in Moscow in the summer of 1984, followed
by six months in 1987, which resulted in the novel Quite The Other
Way(Doubleday, 1989). Jones received an MFA in writing
from Columbia University's School of the Arts and taught fiction workshops
for several years at The Writer's Voice. She helped to found the MFA Program
at Long Island University's Southampton campus, where she still teaches
fiction.
A Phi Beta Kappa, Jones loves scuba diving and yoga. She is married to
Kevin Heisler and considers their infant daughter, Eyrna, to be "her greatest
accomplishment." In September of 1998, A Soldier's Daughter Never
Cries will be released as a Merchant Ivory film starring Kris
Kristofferson and Barbara Hershey.
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