Catherine Ann Jones

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Catherine Ann Jones (Katherine Rao) is an American dramatist and playwright as well as an actor and short story writer.{{cite web |url=http://www.theosophical.org/ndex.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=40&id=1111 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227061809/http://www.theosophical.org/ndex.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=40&id=1111 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 27, 2012 |title=Krotona Programs – Theosophical Society in America |first=Harry |last=Binford |work=theosophical.org |accessdate=2015-11-01}}

Early life and education

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Career

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Awards

Jones's 2013 book, Heal Your Self with Writing, won the Nautilus Book Award in 2014.{{cite news |title= Catherine Ann Jones' pandemic prescription: 'Heal Your Self with Writing' |date=January 22, 2021 |newspaper=Ohai Valley News |url=https://www.ojaivalleynews.com/news/catherine-ann-jones-pandemic-prescription-heal-your-self-with-writing/article_fe9ef0cd-d240-56d3-85fb-3792fc20d23b.html |access-date=2024-03-03}}

Personal life

When Jones was 19 she met the East Indian writer and novelist Raja Rao who was lecturing on Indian philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/back-in-her-spiritual-home/article2255552.ece|title=Back in her spiritual home |newspaper=The Hindu |date=July 19, 2011 |access-date=2 July 2017}} They were married in Paris in 1965 and had one son. The twenty-year marriage ended in divorce in 1986.{{cite news |type=obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1524173/Raja-Rao.html |title=Raja Rao |publisher=The Telegraph |date=July 18, 2006 |accessdate=2017-07-02}}

Works

=Books=

  • {{cite book |year=2000 |title=The Way of Story the Craft and Soul of Writing |publisher=Prasana Press |isbn=978-0-9765352-0-1}}
  • {{cite book |year=2013 |title=Heal Your Self with Writing |publisher=Divine Arts |isbn=978-1-61125-016-9}}
  • {{cite book |year=2016 |title=Freud's Oracle: A Play Based on the Life of H. D. |publisher=Prasana Press |isbn=978-0-9765352-1-8}}
  • {{cite book |year=2020 |title=Buddha and the Dancing Girl: A Creative Life |publisher=Prasana Press |isbn=978-0-9765352-4-9}}
  • {{cite book |year=2020 |title=True Fables: Stories from Childhood |publisher=Prasana Press |isbn=978-0-9765352-3-2}}
  • {{cite book |year=2024 |title=East & West: Stories of India |publisher=Pippa Rann Books & Media |isbn=978-1-913738-88-4}}

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=Plays=

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  • Freud’s Oracle
  • Calamity Jane
  • Calamity Jane the Musical (Best Production 2015)
  • The Women of Cedar Creek (NY Drama League Award, Beverly Hills Th. Guild Award)
  • The Myth of Annie Beckman
  • On the Edge: The Final Years of Virginia Woolf (NEA Award)
  • Somewhere-in-Between
  • Difficult Friends
  • The Hill
  • The Friend
  • A Fairytale for Adults
  • Always a Tomorrow

References

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