John Jakes

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John William Jakes (born on March 31, 1932) is a writer of fiction. Jakes first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950s. He published several stories and novels over the next 20 years, many of them fantasy fiction, science fiction and westerns and other sorts of historical fiction, while working in the advertising industry. In 1971, he began to write full time.

During this time, he was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies.

He gained widespread popularity with the publication of his Bicentennial Series of books in the mid to late 1970s. He has since published several more popular works of historical fiction, most dealing with American history.

Jakes lives in South Carolina and Florida with his wife, Rachel, to whom he has been married since 1951.

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Mainstream novels

[edit] The Kent Family Chronicles

Main article: The Kent Family Chronicles

[edit] The North and South trilogy

Main article: North and South (trilogy)

[edit] The Crown Family Saga

  • Homeland (1993)
  • American Dreams (1998)

[edit] Other

  • A Night For Treason (1956)
  • Wear A Fast Gun (1956)
  • The Devil Has Four Faces (1958)
  • The Seventh Man (1958)
  • I, Barbarian (1959) (as Jay Scotland)
  • Johnny Havoc (1960)
  • Sir Scoundrel (1962) (as Jay Scotland)
  • Arena (1963) (as Jay Scotland)
  • Making It Big aka Johnny Havoc And The Siren In Red (1968)
  • California Gold (1989)
  • In The Big Country (1993), later reissued as The Bold Frontier (2001)
  • On Secret Service (2000)
  • Charleston (2002)
  • Savannah or a Gift for Mr. Lincoln (2004)
  • The Gods of Newport (2006)
  • Funeral for Tanner Moody (with Elmer Kelton, Robert Randish) (2004)

[edit] Science fiction and fantasy

[edit] Brak the Barbarian series

  • Brak the Barbarian (1968)
  • Brak the Barbarian: The Mark of Demons (1969)
  • Brak the Barbarian: The Sorceress (1969)
  • Brak: When Idols Walked (1978)
  • The Fortunes of Brak (1980)

[edit] Other

  • The Asylum World (1969)
  • The Hybrid (1969)
  • The Last Magicians (1969)
  • The Planet Wizard (1969)
  • Secrets Of Stardeep (1969)
  • Tonight We Steal the Stars (1969)
  • Mask of Chaos (1970)
  • Six-Gun Planet (1970)
  • Black in Time (1970)
  • Mention My Name in Atlantis (1972)
  • Time Gate (1972)
  • Witch Of The Dark Gate (1972)
  • Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
  • Excalibur (1985) with Gil Kane

[edit] Children's books

  • Susanna of the Alamo (1986)

[edit] Nonfiction

  • Famous Firsts In Sports (1967)
  • Great War Correspondents (1967))
  • Great Women Reporters (1969)
  • Mohawk: The Life Of Joseph Brant (1969)

[edit] Collections

  • The Best of John Jakes (1977)

[edit] Adaptations

The Bastard was adapted as a television miniseries by Universal Pictures Television as the first offering of the highly successful syndicated package, Operation Prime Time (1978). The North and South trilogy was made into three miniseries on ABC in the 1980s and 1990s.

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