by James Jones
Jones on soldiers’ acceptance that their names are on the roll of the dead is from James Jones, WWII. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1975, p. 54.
Jones on loss of confidence is from Hendrick, To Reach Eternity, p. 27.
Attu information is from Simon Rigge, War in the Outposts. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1980, pp. 122, 135, 141; C. L. Sulzberger and others, The American Heritage Picture History of World War II. New York: American Heritage, n.d. pp. 16, 54–55, 330. The cry of “Japanese drink blood like wine” is from Sulzberger, The American Heritage Picture History of World War II, p. 330.
Jones’s “The Hill They Call the Horse” is published in Hendrick, To Reach Eternity, pp. 32–35.
Jones’s comments about his lovemaking in Memphis is from MacShane, Into Eternity, p. 63.
For information about the interest of Lowney Handy and James Jones in Eastern religions, see Steven R. Carter, James Jones: An American Literary Orientalist Master. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
For Lowney Handy’s account of meeting Jones, see A.B.C. Whipple, “James Jones and His Angel,” Life, May 7, 1951, p. 144. See also, George Hendrick, Helen Howe, and Don Sackrider, James Jones and the Handy Writers’ Colony. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, for an account of their relationship.
Jones on Lowney’s subjecting herself to him is from MacShane, Into Eternity, p. 77.
The summary of Jones’s talk with a psychiatrist is from MacShane, Into Eternity, p. 68.
For general information about Maxwell Perkins and James Jones, see A. Scott Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. New York: Dutton, 1978; John Hall Wheelock, ed. Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950; Burroughs Mitchell, The Education of an Editor. New York: Doubleday, 1980.
For a thought-provoking M.A. thesis, see Greg Randle, James Jones’s First Romance: An Examination of “They Shall Inherit the Laughter.” Sangamon State University (now the University of Illinois at Springfield), 1989. For Wheelock to Aley and Perkins to Jones, see p. 6.
Aley’s letter to Jones, March 25, 1945, is from the Handy Collection, Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield.
Jones to Perkins about Laughter lacking “resolution” from Hendrick, To Reach Eternity, p. 49.
Burroughs Mitchell on the faults of Laughter is from Mitchell, The Education of an Editor, p. 57.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks for the assistance of Helen Howe; Ray Elliott; Kaylie Jones; Librarians at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Illinois at Springfield, and the Urbana Free Library; Jean Thompson; and Don Sackrider.
—George Hendrick
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