Author Profile:  Evelyn Jones

Evelyn Jones lived a creative and fulfilling life as a newspaper writer, author, and playwright.  She created the Young Folks Page for the Boston Herald Traveler and was a member of the Boston Press Club for many years.  She entertained her newspaper audiences with games, stories, and puzzles, and family members were often asked to test the latest joke or riddle.  Later in life she became a playwright.  Her best known play, Not On This Night, received the Spotlight on the Arts Award for Best Original Script in 2002.  Not on This Night was first produced by the Players’ Ring in Portsmouth, and was inspired in part by her father, Reginald Jones, a World War I veteran who served in the Signal Corps in France.  Evelyn passed away in 2014 at the age of 85.