"One day one of their number would write a book about all this, but none of them would believe it, because none of them would remember it that way." --From The Thin Red Line
NOTE: There are a great many more items out there, but this should give the student or scholar is good starting place in doing research.
Garrett, George P. James Jones. San Diego: Harcourt, 1984.
Giles, James R. James Jones. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981.
Hendrick, George. To Reach Eternity: The Letters of James Jones. New York: Random House, 1989.
Hopkins, John R. James Jones: A Checklist. Detroit: Gale, 1974.
Lennon, J. Michael, and James R. Giles, eds. The James Jones Reader: Outstanding Selections From His War Writings. Secaucus: Carol Pub. Group, 1991.
MacShane, Frank. Into Eternity: The Life of James Jones, American Writer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Morris, Willie. James Jones: A Friendship. Garden City: Doubleday, 1978.
Adams, Richard P. "A Second Look at From Here to Eternity." College English 17 (January 1956): 205-210.
Aldrich, Nelson W. Jr. "James Jones." In Writers at Work: the Paris Reveiw Interviews: Third Series. New York: Viking, 1967.
Aldridge, John W. "The Last James Jones." New York Times Book Review (5 March 1978): 1, 30-31.
Bell, Pearl K. "The Wars of James Jones." Commentary 65 (April 1978): 90-92.
Didion, Joan. "In the Islands." In The White Album. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. 145-152.
Lennon, J. Michael. "Glimpses: James Jones 1921-1977." Paris Review 29,103 (Summer 1987) 205-236.
Mailer, Norman. "Evaluations--Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room." Advertisements for Myself. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1959, 463-464.
Morris, Willie. "A Friendship: Remembering James Jones." Atlantic (June 1978) 47-64.
Shaw, Irwin. "James Jones, 1921-1977." New York Times Book Review (12 June 1977): 2, 34.
Besser, Marianne. "Writers' Concentration Camp." Writer's Digest 35,10 (September 1955): 30-34, 65, 72-73.
Bowers, John. The Colony. New York: Dutton, 1971.
Hendricks, George, Helen Howe, and Don Sackrider. James Jones and the
Handy Writers' Colony. Carbondale: SIU P, 2001.
"Housemother Knows Best." Time (12 November 1956): 127-128, 130.
Howe, Helen, Don Sackrider, and George Hendricks. Writings from the Handy
Colony. Urbana: Tales P, 2001.
Leonard, William. "She Teaches Tough Guys to Write." Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine (14 July 1957): 18-19.
Ray, David. "Mrs. Handy's Curious Colony." Chicago Magazine 3, 7 (September 1956): 22-27.
Whipple, A.B.C. "James Jones and His Angel." Life 30,19 (7 May 1951): 142-44, 147, 149-50, 152, 154, 157.
Wray, Walter. "Lowney's Boys." Saturday Review (23 March 1957): 13.
Wood, Thomas J. "'Not Following in the Groove': Lowney Handy, James Jones and the Handy Colony for Writers." Illinois Historical Journal 90, 2 (Summer 1997): 82-96.
Wood, Thomas J., and Meredith Keating. James Jones in Illinois: A Guide to the Handy Writers' Colony Collection in the Sangamon State University Library Archives. Springfield: University Library, Sangamon State U, 1989.
Aldrich, Nelson. "The Art of Fiction XXIII." Paris Review 20 (1959): 34-35.
Dolbier, Maurice. "What the NBA Means to Some Past Winners." New York Herald Tribune Book Review (1 March 1959): 2, 11.
Hanscom, Leslie. "The Writer Speaks" (transcript of radio interview, 1962), in John R. Hopkins, James Jones: A Checklist (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1974: 7-18).
"James Jones and William Styron: Two Writers Talk It Over." Esquire 60 (July 1963): 57-59.
Goodfriend, Arthur. "The Cognoscenti Abroad II: James Jones' Paris." Saturday Review 52 (1 February 1969): 36-38.
Bannon, Barbara A. "Story Behind the Book: James Jones and A Touch of Danger." Publishers Weekly 203 (7 May 1978): 38-39.
"Buying Out of Vietnam." Oui 2 (November 1973): 39, 40, 116.
Lasky, Michael S. "James Jones Has Come Home to Whistle." Writers Digest 56 (October 1976): 22-26+.