It Can Take A Lifetime to Tell the Truth

Posted by • August 6th, 2009

HCSB’s latest speaker, Kaylie Jones discusses her (not-so) charmed childhood, her family’s struggle with alcoholism, and rebounding with martial arts, as revealed in her new memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me (William Morrow), on shelves 8/25.

 

Kaylie Jones  is an award-winning novelist and screenplay writer. She is the acclaimed author of A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (which was made into the Merchant Ivory film starring Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Hershey and won the New York Public Library Young Adult Fiction Award), Celeste Ascending, As Soon as it Rains, Quite the Other Way, and Speak Now. The daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist James Jones (From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line) she chairs the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, which awards $10,000 annually to an unpublished first novel.


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  • http://www.HonestMedicine.com Julia Schopick

    What I wonderful video about what promises to be an absolutely riveting book.

    I first learned about Kaylie Jones from very good friend of mine who is also a writer, Michael James Moore. He had written an article about Kaylie Jones that was published in 2004 in the Madison (WI) Capital Times.

    Ever since I read this article, I knew that I wanted to read Ms. Jones’ work — and I have. I have become a fan.

    Ironically, just yesterday, on his new blog, Mr. Moore posted an article about Ms. Jones’ father, James Jones, and his relationship with Lowney Handy, titled, “Remembering James Jones and Lowney Handy: How a Gifted Older Woman Gave Birth to a Literary Giant.”

    I hope you will agree that these two columns by Michael James Moore add something important to Kaylie Jones’ story.

    Thanks much.
    Julia Schopick