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Jakes was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 31, 1932. [1] [2] He first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950s. [3]Jakes studied creative writing at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, graduating in 1953.
The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The American Bicentennial Series) is a series of eight novels by John Jakes written for Lyle Engel of Book Creations, Inc., to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. [1]
John Jakes, the bestselling author of historical novels whose books The Bastard and North And South were adapted into highly rated TV movies and miniseries in the 1970s and ’80s, died Saturday ...
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...
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Heaven and Hell (Jakes novel), a 1987 novel by John Jakes in the North and South trilogy; Heaven and Hell, a 1981 play by Dusty Hughes; Heaven and Hell (Icelandic: Himnaríki og helvíti), a 2007 novel by Jón Kalman Stefánsson; Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974–2001), a 2008 autobiography by Don Felder
Charleston is a 2002 family saga novel by John Jakes. [1] It tells the story of the Bell family, founded by Sydney Greech, who retitled his last name and spawned the clan. The bulk of the book is set in the lead-up to the American Civil War, with a brotherly rivalrous love triangle taking center st