About T.P. Jones

The life behind the novels.

A person’s dream doesn’t always match his or her natural abilities. It certainly didn’t for me.

Growing up in Massachusetts in a family of scientists and engineers, I fell in love at an early age with the idea of becoming a novelist. Not until my mid-thirties, however, after teaching mathematics at universities in Connecticut for a decade, did I take the leap, beginning the arduous process of becoming a serious writer of fiction.

Sociologically and artistically rendered novels…a microcosm of late twentieth century American culture in flux.
— The Journal of American Culture, on The Loss of Certainty

Now, with the beginning of The Sonoran Quartet, I am once again plumbing the profound impact that private desires have on the life we all must share in common, come what may.

Behind the work

Why have I written these novels?

In critical ways, we humans fail to embrace our reality. Much of our destructive behavior is the result of a heritage received from the deep past, long before modern humans arrived on the scene. We fail to accept the responsibility implicit in that fact.

We are a species that has evolved only so far and have a road yet to travel, perhaps a long one, if we are ever to become a mature animal, able to live much more peacefully with one another and within an ecosystem which is no longer being damaged by our behavior. Self-knowledge and patience are required.

The reason I write? To make a small contribution to that hopeful future.

Enter the world of the novels.

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