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Authors: James Jones
Tags: #Fiction, #Literary, #Art, #Typography
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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Grateful acknowledgment to Princeton University Press to quote from
The I Ching: or Book of Changes
, translated by Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes, Bollingen Series XIX (copyright © 1950, 1967 by Bollingen Foundation), Princeton University Press, 3
rd
ed. 1967.
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