Catherine Ann Jones is a playwright, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the screenplay for the film ''The Christmas Wife'' and ''Unlikely Angel.'' She wrote several episodes of the television series ''

Touched by an Angel ''Touched by an Angel'' is an American fantasy drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994, and ran for 211 episodes over nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and executive produced ...

''.

Education and career

Catherine Ann Jones holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Archetypal Mythology from

Pacifica Graduate Institute Pacifica Graduate Institute is a private for-profit graduate school with two campuses near Santa Barbara, California. The institute offers masters and doctoral degrees in the fields of clinical psychology, counseling, mythological studies, dep ...

where she has also taught. After playing major roles in over fifty plays on and off-Broadway, she became disappointed by the lack of good roles for women and wrote a play, ''On the Edge'', about Virginia Woolf and her struggle with madness in a world gone mad, Hitler and WWII. The play won a

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Award. Eleven of her plays, including ''Calamity Jane'' (both play and musical), ''The Women of Cedar Creek,'' and ''Freud’s Oracle'', have won multiple awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include ''The Christmas Wife'' (1988), ''Unlikely Angel'' (1996), and the TV series ''Touched by an Angel''. A Fulbright Research Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has taught at The New School University,

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, the

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and the

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is a non-profit educational retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Founded in 1977 by Elizabeth Lesser and Stephan Rechtschaffen, inspired by Sufi mystic, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and his ecu ...

Books

Jones has written six books: * ''The Way of Story: The Craft & Soul of Writing'' * ''Heal Your Self with Writing'' (

Nautilus Book Award The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species in ...

2014) * ''What Story Are You Living?'' * ''Freud's Oracle'' * ''True Fables: Stories from Childhood'' * ''Buddha and the Dancing Girl: A Creative Life''

Personal life

When Jones was 19 she met the East Indian writer and novelist

Raja Rao Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. '' The Serpent and the Rope'' (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting ...

who was lecturing on Indian philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. They were married in Paris in 1965 and had one son, Christopher Rama Rao. The twenty-year marriage ended in divorce in 1986.

References

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