Marjorie G. Jones

Marjorie G. Jones is a graduate of Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, and the Rutgers School of Law. In the 1990s, after twenty-five years in banking and executive recruitment, she returned to school and earned an M.A. in Historical Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in New York City, where she wrote her thesis about early unpublished writings of Frances Yates. Since then, she has taught history at The New School and Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY and Sing Sing prison and currently teaches history online for Mercy College.

A member of the Writing Women’s Lives seminar, she lives with her husband in Philadelphia, PA.

Francis Yates and the Hermetic Tradition is the author's first book. Translated into Japanese, Frances Yates & the Hermetic Tradition was published in Japan in early 2010. It is to be published in Italian in 2014.

Currently Marjorie is working on her next biography of Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), a Quaker known as the Audubon of Botany.

Please visit Marjorie G. Jones's website http://www.marjoriegjones.com for more information and to view other projects by this author.