John Jakes

New York Times best-selling author John Jakes wrote extensively for pulp magazines like Thrilling Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories in the 1950s. He created Brak the Barbarian for a tale published in Fantastic magazine (March 1965).

His later historical fiction, including The Kent Family Chronicles set during the Revolutionary War and the North and South trilogy set during the Civil War, sold millions of copies. His 2002 novel, Charleston, returned him to the turbulent years of the Revolution and the Civil War, and became his sixteenth consecutive New York Times bestseller.

Jakes was a founding member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers’ Guild of America (SAGA) with fellow authors Poul Anderson, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, and Michael Moorcock.