It’s time to mention his name in Atlantis.
Brian Leno popped the news to me that John Jakes died Saturday March 18 , age 90.
Jakes was one of the most commercially successful writers to emerge from the paperback originals and digest mags of the 1950s and 60s. I imagine Mario Puzo may have made more money after he broke through, but it’s hard to imagine many others even close — Spillane maybe, but I’d think Jakes did much, much better than “king of the paperbacks” John D. MacDonald.
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