Like many a teenager, I was guilty of judging a book by it's cover, and the cover made it seem like the sort of book I'd enjoy because they were dressed in what I, then, called "garb," because I spent too many summers at Renaissance Faires. I bought this book for almost nothing at one of those roving book sales where nearly all the literature is semi-awful, and that's why they're unloading it. This launched Jones’s trilogy about three strong, passionate, and self-willed founders of the Plantagenet empire: Maud, Henry, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Jones made her fiction debut with The Fatal Crown (1991), a historical novel about the twelfth-century British princess Maud. Her travels deepened her interest in history and the seeds of her novels began to take root. During her five years in England, Jones was able to explore the country she also traveled throughout Europe, including a visit to the French region of Aquitaine. Jones and her family then moved to England, where she fell in love with London and its colorful history. These two works were performed by the Honolulu Theatre for Youth in Hawaii.
After getting married and while raising two young children, Jones wrote two plays, one set in eighteenth-century Vermont and the other based on Japanese history.
After graduating from Bennington College, she spent a few years studying drama in graduate school, which led to her first writing efforts.
Ellen Jones was born in New York City and raised in a family of history teachers and musicians, who exposed her to a variety of ideas, cultures, and lifestyles.
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