Member: Ted Jones
A former accountant and business consultant, Ted has been a member of Slough Writers for more than ten years, during which time, with the help and encouragement of other members, he has become a free-lance writer with a wide-ranging journalistic output. His travel and general interest articles, and, more recently, photography, have appeared in publications and websites on both sides of the Atlantic and in France, including British publications The Guardian, Choice, The Lady, Wanderlust, Flagship, France, Yesterday and Living France; American publications such as France Today, Writers' Journal, Transitions Abroad and Voyageur; and French publications such as Nice-Matin and The Riviera Times. For more information and work samples, see my website
Successes
Published The French Riviera: A Literary Guide (I. B. Tauris), now in its second edition (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
The book offers a virtual literary tour of the Riviera, covering the lives and work of almost 200 writers who found inspiration there – from Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham who spent much of their lives there, through those writers whose work it dominates such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Guy de Maupassant, to the many who simply lingered there. Ted has done a number of presentations and signings based on the book in UK and France, and will be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Monday, August 11.
Winner of a number of literary awards for articles and short fiction and – in different years - of Slough Writers awards in every genre except short plays.
Interests
Travel, food, literature, art, jazz, Everton Football Club. See my blog for updates.
Expertise
Early Italian and 18thC. English painting, France (Riviera), USA (esp. North-east), jazz, tax for writers.