J. A. JONES spent three years as an army enlisted man during WW II, went to college on the G.I. bill and earned a B.A. in anthropology at the University of New Mexico and a PhD in anthropology at Columbia. He worked on Indian Claims law suits, taught anthropology at Arizona State University and Indiana University and was a Professor of Social Planning at Pennsylvania State. From there he went into community development in Chicago and became a hospital administrator In Las Vegas, New Mexico, retiring to write and play poker. He's been married to the same woman for sixty-four years. His trilogy on King Arthur, In the Shadow of the Oak King, Witch Queen of the North and A Prince in Camelot, made best seller lists.