Alice Eleanor Jones

Alice Eleanor Jones Nearing
Alice Eleanor Jones Nearing
Born	Alice Eleanor Jones; 30 March 1916; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	6 November 1981
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania

Alice Eleanor Jones (30 March 1916 – 6 November 1981), was an American science fiction writer and journalist.

Biography

Born Alice Eleanor Jones on 30 March 1916 in Philadelphia, to Henry Stayton Jones and Lucy A. Jones (née Schuler). Her father was a photoengraver for a publishing firm. She had one sister. Jones got her bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1936 and her Ph.D. in English literature from the same university in 1944. She married another graduate student Homer Nearing Jr. and they moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The couple had two sons, Geoffrey and Gregory.^[1]^[2]

Jones had a long career in publishing for a number of magazines including Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, Woman’s Day, American Girl, and Seventeen. She published articles which were both fiction and nonfiction. She wrote for these journals until the 1960s. During 1955 she published briefly in genre magazines and her work has since been reissued by Strange Horizons. Her work is recognized for its strong feminist tones.^[1]^[3]^[4]^[2]^[5]

Selected works

Chapbooks

The Happy Clown, (2019)

Short fiction

Life, Incorporated, (1955) published in Fantastic Universe Science Fiction magazine~April 1955
Created He Them, (1955) published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1955
Miss Quatro, (1955) published in Fantastic Universe, June 1955
Recruiting Officer, (1955) published in Fantastic, October 1955
The Happy Clown, (1955) published in If, December 1955

References and sources

^ ^a ^b "Alice Eleanor Jones – The Future is Female!". The Future is Female! – Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. 1916-03-30. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
^ ^a ^b Yaszek, L. (2018). The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library of America Special Publication. Library of America. p. 474. ISBN 978-1-59853-585-3. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
^ Davin, E.L. (2006). Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965. Lexington Books. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-7391-1267-0. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
^ Larbalestier, J. (2006). Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Wesleyan University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8195-6676-8. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
^ Canavan, G.; Link, E.C. (2018). The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-1-316-73301-1. Retrieved 2019-10-04.

[The_Future_is_Female_1916-1] "Alice Eleanor Jones – The Future is Female!". The Future is Female! – Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. 1916-03-30. Retrieved 2019-10-04.

[Yaszek_2018-2] Yaszek, L. (2018). The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library of America Special Publication. Library of America. p. 474. ISBN 978-1-59853-585-3. Retrieved 2019-10-04.

[Davin_2006-3] Davin, E.L. (2006). Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965. Lexington Books. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-7391-1267-0. Retrieved 2019-10-04.

[Larbalestier-4] Larbalestier, J. (2006). Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Wesleyan University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8195-6676-8. Retrieved 2019-10-04.

[Canavan_Link_2018-5] Canavan, G.; Link, E.C. (2018). The Cambridge History of Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-1-316-73301-1. Retrieved 2019-10-04.

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