Truscott Jones

After practicing law for 25 years, Truscott Jones left to teach government and world affairs to high school students. Across both careers, he worked in politics: party conventions, presidential campaigns, and as debate partner for a sitting U.S. senator. These endeavors, and a passion for history and the thin margins upon which it turns, inspired the writing of his latest work of alternative history, Return to Dixie. Engaging students in a diverse public school, persuading juries, and swaying voters all require creative storytelling. This new novel taps into those prior experiences.

Growing up in the South, but raised by parents from Boston and Scranton, Jones lived the tension between our great nation’s cultures. As a gay man coming of age in an era before today’s shaky acceptance, intolerance and the constant fight for equality are familiar concepts to him. Return to Dixie is the product of that backdrop, an effort to paint a unique view of our American condition.