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Jeff P. Jones

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Denver, Colorado, The United States

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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JEFF P. JONES was educated at the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Washington, and the University of Idaho. He’s a MacDowell Fellow, a Bread Loaf Fellow in Fiction, and his writing has won a Pushcart Prize, as well as the Hackney, Meridian Editors', A. David Schwartz, Wabash, and Lamar York prizes. LOVE GIVE US ONE DEATH, his debut novel, won the George Garrett Prize in Fiction. BLOODSHOT STORIES, his debut story collection, won the Sunshot Book Award.

His handbook WRITING FOR THE READER: PRACTICE IN PROSE CRAFT is available on Kindle and as a paperback through Amazon.
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	Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days 3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days

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“The road to wisdom is paved with excess.

The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”
― Walt Whitman

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