Madison Jones

University of North Carolina at Asheville D. Hiden Ramsey Library Special Collections Madison Jones (b. 1925) Southern Appalachian Writers Collection M2005.05.02-08

Title	Madison Jones
Creator	Southern Highlands Research Center
Alt. Creator	D. H. Ramsey Library
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/southern_appalachian_writers/jones_madison/jones_madison.htm
Subject Keyword	Madison Jones ; Southern Appalachian Writers ; Appalachia
Subject LCSH	Jones, Madison, 1925 - American literature -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History and criticism American literature -- Appalachian Mountains -- History and criticism Appalachians (People) in literature Appalachian Region, Southern -- Description and travel
Description	The collection contains letters of correspondence, ephemera, a photograph, book jackets, and anecdotal information on the writer. These materials were gathered as part of an exhibition of Southern Appalachian Writers held at UNCA in the early 1980's and sponsored by D. H. Ramsey Library and the Southern Highlands Research Center.
Publisher	D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor	Annette Hatley, Matthew Farrell
Date	2005-08-23
Type	Collection ; text ; photograph
Format	1 folder ; text ; image
Source	M2005.05.02-8
Language	English
Relation	The Heritage of Western North Carolina, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville
Coverage	1900's - present ; North Carolina ;
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Some materials in collections are electronic rights only. Please ask for assistance from Special Collections staff.
Donor	240
Acquisition	2004-03-
Citation	Madison Jones in Southern Appalachian Writers Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by	Special Collections staff, 2005
Last update	2008-09-22
Statement on writing	"In making a coherency of his ideas [the writer] makes a work of art in which other people can share and also profit.... Our own conceptions, our visions, are what bring the world into the human order and give it a tongue with which to answer back.... This is what art does: by its vision it invests the world with a comprehensible life.... The things in the world that interest in fictionally are things that relate to the problems of his inner life.... The assumption that literature springs partly from an impulse toward self-discovery points to an important fact about the writer's relationship to his material.... At some time, or times, in the composing of his work he suddenly sees; and this seeing is the goal toward which the most fundamental impulse behind his work has been driving him.... The search for a certain kind of truth is an important factor in why he writes."
Biography	Madison Jones was raised in and around Nashville, Tennessee, though he spent the majority of his adult life in Auburn, Alabama, where from 1956 until his retirement in 1987, he taught in the English Department at Auburn University. Jones’s novels are informed by his rural upbringing, much of which was spent working the family farm. But as with all great artists, his sense of place goes beyond mere physical landscape, but also encompasses a psychological and moral geography. Through his explorations of sin and redemption, and the disparity between the spiritual and the violent physical world place Jones squarely with other writers tied to the Southern Appalachians, such as Charles Frazier and Cormac McCarthy.
Bibliography	*BOOKS BY*
1957	The Innocent. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957.
1960	Forest of the Night. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960.
1963	A Buried Land, a Novel. New York: Viking Press, 1963.
1967	An Exile. New York: Viking Press, 1967.
1971	A Cry of Absence: A Novel. New York: Crown Publishers, 1971
1978	Passage Through Gehenna. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
1982	Season of the Strangler. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.
1996	To the Winds: A Novel. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1996.
1997	Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light, a Novel. Nashville, TN: J.S. Sanders & Co., 1997
2003	Herod's Wife: A Novel. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2003.
	*ARTICLES ABOUT*
2003	"Forest of the Night: A Declaration of Independence." Garrett, George. Archipelago v. 6.3. October 24, 2007. <http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-3/recommend.htm>.