Simmons Jones

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Simmons Jones was a novelist and photographer born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in June 1920, the son of Morehead Jones and Cornelia Dowd Jones. As a young man, Jones wrote obituaries and ran the Poet's Corner for the Charlotte News, a newspaper owned by his mother. He served in World War II from 1941 to 1945 with the 771st Tank Destroyer Battalion. Following the war, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Pembroke College at Oxford University, graduating from neither. He lived in Paris, Rome, and in New York City for twenty years working in the production end of the Broadway Theater and as a fashion photographer. He returned to Charlotte in 1974 and lived in the Fourth Ward's Poplar Apartments, where he completed his novel, Show Me the Way to Go Home, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1992. An exhibition of his fashion photography was held at Charlotte's The Light Factory in 2002. He died in May 2006.

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Biographical note from finding aid for the Simmons Baker Jones Papers #5292, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.