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John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 – March 11, 2023) was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction. His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.
The first novel begins just before the American Revolution, with Frenchman Phillipe Charboneau, who travels to England and later to the New World, changing his name to Philip Kent along the way and meeting several key figures of the Revolution, including the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Joseph Warren, and ...
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 ...
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
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