Kaylie Jones Biography

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 Speak Now and Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir (William Morrow). 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to Eternity The Thin Red Line) she chairs the James Jones First Novel Fellowship which awards $10000 annually to an unpublished first novel. Her screenplay Anor of Aquatain written with her husband Kevin Heisler won the gold medal at the Houston Film Festival while her original screenplay Limbo won a New York Women In Film Screenwriting Award. A Writer in Residence in the New York City public schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative and a creative writing teacher at the MFA Program in Writing at Long Island University's Southampton campus she is a sought after keynote speaker at writers' conferences and festivals libraries and universities. She is also a black belt in taekwondo.
Lies My Mother Never Told Me is Jones' story of her struggle to overcome her addiction to alcohol and flourish as a writer beneath the looming shadow of her famous father and her emotionally abusive alcoholic mother. Raised in the Hamptons via France among the glitterati that orbited her famous father Jones struggled to find herself both as an independent woman and as a novelist. She grew up watching her glamorous mother Gloria a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch and her famous father James Jones National Book Award-winning author of From Here to Eternity entertain the likes of Bill Styron Irwin Shaw Willie Morris and many more. When she was old enough to attend parties with her parents she mingled with Henry Kissinger Norman Mailer and John Steinbeck. The memoir is an intense searing story of personal evolution family secrets and a woman's journey fraught with the pain of discovery and loss to find her own voice.

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