John Jakes

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John Jakes (born 1932) is a writer of fiction. Jakes first sold stories to pulp magazines while still in college in the early 1950s. He published several stories and novels over the next 20 years, many of them science fiction and historical fiction, while working in the advertising industry. In 1971, he began to write full time. He gained widespread popularity with the publication of his Bicentennial Series of books in the mid to late 1970s. He has since published several more popular works of historical fiction, most dealing with American history.

Novels

• The Bastard (1974)
• The North and South trilogy
  • North and South
  • Love and War
  • Heaven and Hell

The North and South trilogy was made into three miniseries on ABC in the 1980s and 1990s.