JONES, John Bush 1940-

PERSONAL: Born August 3, 1940, in Chicago, IL; son of Aaron J., Jr. (a theater owner) and Dorothy (Bush) Jones; married Sandra Carson (a law student), May 18, 1968; children: Aaron Carson. Education: Attended Harvard University, 1958-59; Northwestern University, B.S. (with distinction), 1962, M.A., 1963, Ph.D., 1970.

ADDRESSES: Home—Lawrence, KS. Office—c/o Department of English, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045.

CAREER: Happy Medium Theater, Chicago, IL, assistant stage manager, 1960-61; Wagon Wheel Playhouse, Warsaw, IN, lighting designer and stage manager, 1962; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, instructor in English 1965-68; University of Kansas, Lawrence, assistant professor, 1968-72, associate professor, 1972-77, professor of English, beginning 1977; retired. Founder and stage director of Northwestern University Gilbert and Sullivan Guild and (with wife) University of Kansas Mount Oread Gilbert and Sullivan Company; International Conference on Gilbert and Sullivan, chair, 1970.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, American Educational Theater Association, Savage Club (London, England).

AWARDS, HONORS: Grants from Newberry Library grant, 1971, and American Philosophical Society, 1972.

WRITINGS:

W. S. Gilbert: A Century of Scholarship and Commentary, New York University Press (New York, NY), 1970.

(Editor) Readings in Descriptive Bibliography, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 1974.

(Editor and author of introduction, with George L. Vogt) Literary and Historical Editing, University of Kansas Libraries (Lawrence, KS), 1981.

Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theater, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 2003.

Contributor to Encyclopedia Americana. Special drama correspondent, Kansas City Star. Contributor to literary and library journals.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, May 1, 2003, Laura Anne Ewald, review of Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theater, p. 116.*