Alice Eleanor Jones (1916 – 1981) was an American science fiction writer and journalist.

Biography

Jones was born on 30 March 1916 in

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, to Henry Stayton Jones and Lucy A. Jones (née Schuler). Her father was a photoengraver for a publishing firm. She had one sister. Jones got her bachelor's degree from the

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in 1936 and her Ph.D. in English literature from the same university in 1944. She married another graduate student and speculative fiction author Homer Nearing Jr. and they moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The couple had two sons, Geoffrey and Gregory. Jones had a long career in publishing for a number of magazines including

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, Ladies’ Home Journal,

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, Woman’s Day,

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, and

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. She published articles which were both fiction and nonfiction. She wrote for these journals until the 1960s. During 1955 she published briefly in genre magazines and her work has since been reissued by

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. Her work is recognized for its strong feminist tones. For example, in "Created he Them," Jones focus on women's perspective "merges contemporary understandings of nuclear war with the maternalist sensibilities of women's peace activism" according to Lisa Yaszsek.

Selected works

Chapbooks

* ''The Happy Clown'', (2019)

Short fiction

* ''Life, Incorporated'', (1955) published i
Fantastic Universe Science Fiction magazine~April 1955
* ''Created He Them'', (1955) published i
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1955
* ''Miss Quatro'', (1955) published i
Fantastic Universe, June 1955
* ''Recruiting Officer'', (1955) published i
Fantastic, October 1955
* ''The Happy Clown'', (1955) published in
If, December 1955

References and sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Alice Eleanor 1916 births 1981 deaths American science fiction writers University of Pennsylvania alumni Writers from Philadelphia American women journalists American journalists