Jones, Alice Eleanor
Entry updated 11 March 2024. Tagged: Author.
Working name of US academic and author Alice Eleanor Nearing (1916-1981), married to Homer Nearing Jr, whose surname she adopted legally. She began to publish work of genre interest with "Life, Incorporated" in Fantastic Universe for April 1955, and remained active for the next decade, though most of her work was nonfantastic, including one novel-length tale, "Strange Courtship" (5 March Redbook), which did not appear in book form. A slightly muffled Feminist current can be detected in her work, perhaps most clearly in "Created He Them" (July 1955 F&SF), depicting the fate of a young woman in the days after World War Three has ended, in a Dystopian America, poisoned by radioactive Pollution, where children are raised by the state in "safety". After having considerable impact on the field in 1955, Jones almost entirely stopped writing sf. [JC]
Alice Eleanor Nearing
born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 30 March 1916
died Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania: 6 November 1981
works
- The Happy Clown (no place given: Project Gutenberg, 2019) [story: ebook: first appeared December 1955 If: na/]
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