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Authors: John Jakes

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Jakes and his wife have four children and eleven grandchildren. After living for thirty-two years on a South Carolina barrier island, they now reside in Sarasota, Florida, where Jakes has resumed his volunteer work on behalf of theaters and libraries while he continues writing.

Jakes in 1936, on his fourth birthday.

Jakes and his comedy partner, Ron Tomme (at right), won first prize for their comedy act on
Rubin’s Stars of Tomorrow
, a talent show aired on WGN-TV, in Chicago, 1949. Tomme went on to star as the leading man on the CBS soap opera
Love of Life
.

Jakes with his daughter, Andrea, in the mid-1950s, in front of his home on North Walnut Street, Waukegan, Illinois.

Jakes received his fourth honorary doctorate, this one from DePauw University, in 1985 in Greencastle, Indiana. Jakes and his wife are both DePauw graduates. At left is Dr. Richard Rosser, then-president of the university.

Jakes with his wife, Rachel, at a boat party for sixty friends to celebrate the couple’s fiftieth anniversary in 2001 at Calibogue Sound, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Jakes’s 2006 publicity photo for
The Gods of Newport
, taken on the Cliff Walk at Newport, Rhode Island.

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