Kathryn Jones is a journalist, essayist, and poet whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and other publications, and in numerous anthologies, including A Uniquely American Epic: Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Violence in Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch." She is author of two volumes of poetry about the beauty and brutality of nature. She was born in Hollywood and grew up in Texas, where she lives on a ranch southwest of Fort Worth. Jones was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2016.
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"Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood's Real Cowboy is rich with research by the author, interviews, and telling, behind-the-scenes detail about the making of key movies in Johnson's career, as well as his other career as a world-champion roper." - Joseph B. Atkins, author of Harry Dean Stanton: Hollywood's Zen Rebel. "Kathryn Jones's treatment of the actor's life history and comprehensive discussion of all of Johnson's films, television productions, and related professional and philanthropic work is impressive. Tall in the Saddle cements Johnson's contribution to the Western genre as well as twentieth-century film and Oklahoma history." - Jennifer L. McMahon, coeditor of The Philosophy of the Western.