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Kaylie Jones (born August 5, 1960 in Paris, France) is an American writer, memoirist and novelist. Biography. Jones is the daughter of National Book Award -winning novelist James Jones ( From Here to Eternity ), and Gloria Jones, a former actress and stand-in for Marilyn Monroe. Kaylie Jones grew up in Paris, France, and Sagaponack, New York.
Kylie Jones has published six books, the most recent a memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me. Her novel A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries was adapted as a Merchant Ivory film in 1998. Jones has been teaching for more than twenty-five years, and is a faculty member in the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing &.
18 Ogo 2009 · Kaylie Jones is the daughter of James Jones, the author of From Here to Eternity, who dies when she is 16 years old. It turns out that in their terrible relationship, one of the few things that Kaylie has in common with her mother, Gloria, is alcoholism.
30 Ogo 2009 · But they weren’t coming from the newly fatherless 16-year-old Kaylie. They were coming from Gloria Jones, Kaylie’s histrionic mother, who seems never to have encountered a scene she couldn’t ...
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Lies My Mother Never Told Me is the mesmerizing and luminously told story of Kaylie's battle with alcoholism and her struggle to flourish despite the looming shadow of a famous father and an emotionally abusive and damaged mother.
Kaylie Jones has 19 books on Goodreads with 8012 ratings. Kaylie Jones’s most popular book is Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting.
