John Jakes
John Jakes (born
1932) is a
writer of
fiction. Jakes first sold stories to
pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950's. He published several stories and novels over the next 20 years, many of them
science fiction and
historical fiction, while working in the
advertising industry. In 1971, he began to write full time. He gained widespread popularity with the publication of his Bicentennial Series of books in the mid to late 1970's. He has since published several more popular works of historical fiction, most dealing with
American history.
Novels:
- The Bastard, 1974
- The North and South