Alice Eleanor Jones


Alice Eleanor Jones, was an American science fiction writer and journalist.

Biography

Born Alice Eleanor Jones on 30 March 1916 in Philadelphia, to Henry Stayton Jones and Lucy A. Jones. Her father was a photoengraver for a publishing firm. She had one sister. Jones got her bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1936 and her Ph.D. in English literature from the same university in 1944. She married another graduate student Homer Nearing Jr. and they moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The couple had two sons, Geoffrey and Gregory.
Jones had a long career in publishing for a number of magazines including Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, Woman’s Day, American Girl, and Seventeen. She published articles which were both fiction and nonfiction. She wrote for these journals until the 1960s. During 1955 she published briefly in genre magazines and her work has since been reissued by Strange Horizons. Her work is recognized for its strong feminist tones.

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