Brian Jones
 Agent: Lyons Literary, LLP
Washington, District of Columbia, United States Email: brian@brianjayjones.com
Home page: www.brianjayjones.com
Award-winning biographer Brian Jay Jones spent nearly two decades as a writer,
speechwriter, and public policy analyst, serving elected officials at three levels of
government, including nearly ten years in the United States Senate. Despite this
background, he writes nonfiction.
Brian’s first book, Washington Irving: An American Original, has been hailed as the
definitive biography of American literature’s first popular author and pop culture
icon. The Associated Press praised the book as “authoritative,” the Washington
Post’s Michael Dirda called it, “engaging," while the New York Times summed it up
simply as “charming.”
In 2010, Brian was awarded the St. Nicholas Society of New York’s Washington
Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, joining David McCullough, Ron Chernow,
Christopher Buckley, and William Zinsser on the list of medal recipients.
Brian is currently writing the authorized biography of Jim Henson for Random
House/Ballantine. Interests: Biographies, 18th and 19th century history, old jazz and blues, Batman comics, the
films of the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin, and anything having to do with the
Beatles.
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: Yes |
