Robert Page Jones

A native of Macon, Georgia, Robert Page Jones often focuses his writing on the colorful characters he observed while growing up a white boy in Negro CCC camps and on the streets of the deep South during the Great Depression. His sense of good story-telling and a knack for suspenseful and clever plot twists are attracting the attention of Hollywood producers and actors – Jeanne Moreau, Bill Nighy, Eric Roberts and Louise Fletcher.

Robert Page Jones cut his creative baby teeth in the early Fifties, somehow managing to land an assignment writing, producing and directing soldier shows while stationed with the USAF in Europe. Quartered in an atmospheric early nineteenth century cavalry post in France, he found himself in a wonderfully creative environment, just a short train ride from Paris, paid by the United States Government to do something he would have happily paid to do.

He returned home determined to present the world with the great American novel. For the better part of a year he holed up with a derelict typewriter. The result of that collaboration was the sale of his first novel, later made into a film, L'Homme de Marrakech starring George Hamilton and Claudette Anger, serialized in La Observateur and on French radio, published in several languages worldwide.

Marriage, children and the responsibility of a mortgage followed, causing Jones to find work churning out advertising copy for a small but thriving advertising agency. He continued to write and won a PORGY for his novel Wine of the Generals, which was optioned by Paramount but never produced.

Over the years Jones had managed to become President/CEO of the agency at a time when the firm was experiencing impressive growth. He was able to retire early and at the urging of his son, Andrew P. Jones, turned his attention to screenwriting. The two men established Picture Palace Films in 2004 in order to produce Page Jones' screenplays, some of which were written in collaboration with his son.

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