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John Jakes (John William Jakes) was born on 31 March, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American writer (1932–2023). Discover John Jakes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 31 March 1932
Birthday 31 March
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death 11 March, 2023
Died Place Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1932

John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 – March 11, 2023) was an American writer, best known for historical and speculative fiction.

His American Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide.

He was also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles.

Jakes used the pen name Jay Scotland among others.

Jakes was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 31, 1932.

1949

Thrilling Wonder Stories, edited by Sam Merwin, published two 1949–1950 letters from Jakes and two of his stories were published in pulp magazines edited by Howard Browne late in 1950, The Dreaming Trees (Fantastic Adventures, November) and "Your Number Is Up!"

(Amazing Stories, December).

1950

He first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950s.

Jakes sold his first short story (1,500 words) in 1950.

1951

28 more speculative fiction stories by Jakes were published 1951 to 1953.

He then published dozens of stories and several novels during the twenty years following completion of college, many of them fantasy fiction, science fiction and westerns, and other sorts of historical fiction.

Jakes lived on Bird Key in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife, Rachel, to whom he had been married from 1951.

They had four grown children: Andrea, Dr. Ellen, J. Michael, and Victoria.

Jakes died in Sarasota on March 11, 2023, at the age of 90.

1952

He and Rachel, to whom he had been married for 13 months at the time, appeared on the game show Beat the Clock on August 23, 1952.

1953

Jakes studied creative writing at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, graduating in 1953.

He then earned an MA in American literature from Ohio State University.

1960

During this time, he was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s and led by Lin Carter.

The eight original members were self-selected by fantasy credentials alone.

They sought to promote the popularity and respectability of the "Sword and Sorcery" subgenre (such as Brak the Barbarian stories by Jakes).

1961

Although they failed to complete the Bonus Round, Rachel won a Sylvania "Jefferson" 20" screen television set. In 1961, Jakes moved to Dayton, Ohio. He lived there for ten years and worked as a copywriter for several advertising agencies while he wrote fiction at night and on the weekends. In 1971, he began to write full-time.

1970

Jakes gained widespread popularity with the publication of his Kent Family Chronicles, which became a bestselling American Bicentennial Series of books in the mid to late 1970s, selling 55 million copies.

He subsequently published several more popular works of historical fiction, most dealing with American history, including the North and South trilogy about the U.S. Civil War, which sold 10 million copies and was adapted as an ABC miniseries.

1978

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).

1979

It was followed by The Rebels (1979) and The Seekers (1979).

1980

The North and South trilogy was made into three miniseries on ABC in the 1980s and 1990s.

1988

In 1988, Jakes's stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol was first performed at his home theater on Hilton Head Island.

It has since become popular for production by many universities and regional theaters, including the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

2013

In September 2013, Jakes was named a Florida Literary Legend at the Florida Heritage Book Festival and Writers Conference in St. Augustine, Florida.