Catherine Ann Jones (Katherine Rao) is an American dramatist and playwright as well as an actor and short story writer.
[1] Jones's 2013 book, Heal Your Self with Writing, won the Nautilus Book Award in 2014.
[2] When Jones was 19 she met the East Indian writer and novelist Raja Rao who was lecturing on Indian philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.
[3] They were married in Paris in 1965 and had one son.
The twenty-year marriage ended in divorce in 1986.