Alice Eleanor Jones
{{short description|American science fiction writer and journalist}}
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| birth_date = 30 March 1916
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| death_date = 6 November 1981
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Alice Eleanor Jones Nearing (30 March 1916 – 6 November 1981) was an American science fiction writer and journalist.
Biography
Jones was born 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 and speculative fiction author Homer Nearing Jr. and they moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The couple had two sons, Geoffrey and Gregory.{{cite web | title=Alice Eleanor Jones – The Future is Female! | website=The Future is Female! – Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin | date=1916-03-30 | url=http://womensf.loa.org/alice-eleanor-jones/ | access-date=2019-10-04}}{{cite book | last=Yaszek | first=L. | title=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 | publisher=Library of America | year=2018 | isbn=978-1-59853-585-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l19EDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT474 | access-date=2019-10-04 | page=474}}
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.{{cite book | last=Davin | first=E.L. | title=Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965 | publisher=Lexington Books | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-7391-1267-0 | url=https://archive.org/details/partnersinwonder0000davi | url-access=registration | access-date=2019-10-04 | page=[https://archive.org/details/partnersinwonder0000davi/page/389 389]}}{{cite book | last=Larbalestier | first=J. | title=Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century | publisher=Wesleyan University Press | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-8195-6676-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/daughtersofearth00larb | url-access=registration | access-date=2019-10-04 | page=[https://archive.org/details/daughtersofearth00larb/page/4 4]}}{{cite book | last1=Canavan | first1=G. | last2=Link | first2=E.C. | title=The Cambridge History of Science Fiction | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=2018 | isbn=978-1-316-73301-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4B-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT335 | access-date=2019-10-04 | page=335}} For example, in "Created he Them," Jones focus on women's perspective "merges contemporary understandings of nuclear war with the maternalist sensibilities of women's peace activism" according to Lisa Yaszsek.{{Cite journal |last=Yaszsek |first=Lisa |date=Spring 2004 |title=The Women History Doesn't See: Recovering Midcentury Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique |journal=Extrapolation |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=34–51 |doi=10.3828/extr.2004.45.1.5 }}
Selected works
=Chapbooks=
- The Happy Clown, (2019)
=Short fiction=
- Life, Incorporated, (1955) published in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?89713 Fantastic Universe Science Fiction magazine~April 1955]
- Created He Them, (1955) published in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61206 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1955]
- Miss Quatro, (1955) published in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?89715 Fantastic Universe, June 1955]
- Recruiting Officer, (1955) published in [https://www.parigibooks.com/pages/books/26044/howard-browne-ed/fantastic-october-1955 Fantastic, October 1955]
- The Happy Clown, (1955) published in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?58715 If, December 1955]
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Category:American science fiction writers
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
Category:Journalists from Philadelphia
Category:Novelists from Philadelphia