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Jones and his sister, Mary Ann, nicknamed “Tink.”

A fifteen-year-old Jones, in 1936.

Jones at the trailer camp where he worked while writing
From Here to Eternity
in the late 1940s.

Jones working in the room where he wrote the majority of
From Here to Eternity
. The room was built specifically for Jones by a family friend in Robinson, Illinois.

Jones in 1951, around the publication of
From Here to Eternity
.

James and Gloria Jones on their wedding day in Haiti, February 1957.

Newlyweds Jones and Gloria, still in Haiti. The couple stayed at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince.

The cast of the film
From Here to Eternity
in Hawaii. Back row, left to right: Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Burt Lancaster. The movie was released in 1953 and won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Jones with fellow National Book Award winners Marianne Moore, Rachel Carson, and John Mason Brown at the Hotel Commodor in New York City.

Jones with his son, Jamie, and daughter, Kaylie, in 1966. The family was visiting Skiathos, Greece, where Jones had bought a piece of land in hopes of building a house—before ultimately deciding that the area was too quiet.

Jones at Florida International University in Miami, where he taught fiction writing during the 1974—1975 school year.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Acknowledgment is made to the following magazines in whose pages these stories first appeared:

The Atlantic Monthly
for “Temper of Steel.”

Collier’s Magazine
for “Greater Love.”

Esquire
for “The Tennis Game” and “Two Legs for the Two of Us.”

Harper’s Magazine
for “The Way It Is.”

New American Library of World Literature
for “A Bottle of Cream” and “None Sing So Wildly.”

Playboy
for “The King” and “Just Like the Girl.”

Saturday Evening Post
for “Valentine.”

copyright © 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1968, 2002 by Gloria Jones, Kaylie Jones, and Jamie Jones

cover design by Karen Horton

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