John bush jones biography
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John bush jones biography
John Bush Jones
American writer and educator (–)
John Bush Jones (August 3, – December 31, )[1] was an American author, theatre director, critic, educator and scholar.
He taught theatre for more than two decades at Brandeis University and wrote widely about musical theatre, publishing several books.[2]
Early life and education
Jones was born in Chicago, Illinois in He described himself as a child of the World War II home front, having just turned five, eleven days before the Surrender of Japan.[3] His experience influenced his writing career, and is reflected in his books.
"my sensory memories great and small of my life on my own home front of Chicago's North Shore suburbs have remained a part if me ever since a formation of bombers passed low over my house, opened their bomb bay doors, and dropped thousands of colored handbills featuring the familiar logo of the Minute Man and the equally famous "'BUY WAR BONDS!"'
—&#;John Bush Jones, Vi