3 "Golden Spur " awards from Western Writers of America
Honored with the "Owen Wister Lifetime Acheivement Award"

After almost a score of critically acclaimed novels, the Washington Post said of Douglas C. Jones "Slowly but with infinate grace, he is creating a masterful fictional history of America!"

Of primary interest to him are the many fromtiers of this country, from the Ohio Valley of the Colonial days to the raw Missouri Territory of the Louisianna Purchase to the end of the Civilized Tribes Nations in 1907.

He has been honored by the Western Writers of America with three Golden Spur Awards for best historical novel of the year and he was the first winner of the prestigous Owen Wister Award in 1993. He was Friend's of American Wriers Best Novelist of the Year, 1982. In 1987, he was presented the University of Wisconsin Chancelor's Award for Excellence in recognition of his writing. He has been a member of Who's Who in America for many years.

Although he has published one non-fiction work, which is the definitive study of peace making with the Southern Plains wild tribes immediatly after the Civil War, and a book of short stories about which one critic wrote, :Somewhere Mark Twain is nodding...Douglas C. Jones has given us another classic," his primary mode is the historical novel.

Jones has done stories dealing with the American Revolution, The War of 1812, the Texas war for Independence, the Civil War, various Native American wars from Abeneki to mohak to Shawnee to Dakota to Comanche, the Spainish American War, the Great Depression, and 1930's community life and law and order.

After his first produced effort at mystery, the New York Times said he had produced "A big and beautiful western mystery."

Jones has degrees from the Universities of Arkansas and Wisconsin. He was a faculty member of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Wisconsin at Madison subsequent to serving 28 years in the army. He has established a considerable reputation as a painter of plains tribesmen, especially Comanches and Kiowas.

He is at home in Arkansas with his wife Mary. They were married in 1949.


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