Background
Stan was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. His parents were from Tennessee and moved back there when he was about two. So he spent his boyhood through age twelve on a farm near the Tennessee-Mississippi border.
(In the small Alaskan village of Chukchi, what are the odd...)
In the small Alaskan village of Chukchi, what are the odds of two suicides occurring in a matter of a few days? State trooper Nathan Active discovers that his suspicions concerning the deaths are well-founded; the two men were murdered. But what was the motive and who killed them?
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1999
Stan was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. His parents were from Tennessee and moved back there when he was about two. So he spent his boyhood through age twelve on a farm near the Tennessee-Mississippi border.
Stan started to work as a reporter at Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Arkansas. Later, he was an environmentalist and a bush pilot. He won several major national awards for investigative stories that led to impeachment proceedings against one of Alaska's governors, and for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Jones’s novel White Sky, Black Ice (published in 1999) has been compared to the popular crime novels of Tony Hillerman. Jones’ protagonist is Alaska state trooper Nathan Active, a Native American (Inupiat) raised by Caucasians. Active negotiates between the white world in which he was raised and the Native American world of his birth.
Although White Sky, Black Ice “generates only modest suspense,” the author “has a real knack for depicting the daily life of a small Inupiat community,” wrote a Publishers Weekly reviewer. “Both culture (there’s an In upiaq glossary) and climate are authentically portrayed in a winning debut,” stated Stephanie Zvirin in her Booklist review. New York Times Book Review contributor Marilyn Stasio claimed that readers will be able to “feel the bite of the west wind that comes screaming across the Alaska tundra and sense the isolation.” Library Journal contributor Rex E. Klett called White Sky, Black Ice “first rate.”
(In the small Alaskan village of Chukchi, what are the odd...)
1999Stan is a wildly eclectic reader, but he has a special interest in the literature of the north.
Stan married to Susan Jones, an epidemiologist and karate master. They have two children, both adults.