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Thom Jones (born January 26, 1945) is an American writer, primarily of short stories. ==Biography== Jones was raised in Aurora, Illinois, where he went to public schools. He went to college at the University of Hawaii, where he played catcher on the baseball team. He later attended the University of Washington, from which he graduated in 1970. He studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, from which he received an M.F.A. in 1973.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/jones-thom )〕 Jones trained in Force Reconnaissance in the Marine Corps but was discharged before his unit was sent to Vietnam. He has used this and other personal experiences, including the suicide of his father, a boxer, after being confined to a mental institution, as sources for his fiction. After graduation from college, he worked as a copywriter for a Chicago advertising agency and later as a janitor, all the while reading and writing for hours each day. He was "discovered" well into his forties by the fiction editors of ''The New Yorker'', who published "The Pugilist at Rest" (1991), which won an O. Henry Award. It was included in ''Best American Short Stories of 1992.'' Other stories of his were published in ''The New Yorker'', as well as in ''Harper's,'' ''Esquire,'' ''Mirabella,'' ''Story,'' and ''Buzz.'' In 1993 he published his first collection of stories, for which this was the title story. Jones resides in Olympia, Washington. He has temporal lobe epilepsy and diabetes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thom Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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