Gayl Jones

Gayl Jones is a renowned African-American author of cultural, African-American, literary fiction, historical fiction, and women’s fiction stories. She hails from Lexington, Kentucky and is particularly famous for her books, Corregidora, The Healing, and Eva’s Man. Gayl was born on November 23, 1949, to her parents, Lucille and Franklin Jones. She was brought up in Speigle Heights, a popular neighborhood in Lexington. Her father worked as a cook while her mother aspired to become a writer, but stayed at home. There was no indoor toilet in Gayl’s home when she was small. During her youth, Gayl mostly stayed with her grandparents in a storytelling environment. Her grandmother used to write plays for the church, while her mother used to make up stories for entertaining the children and other members of the family.