Hugh Jones Parry (March 10, 1916 – December 3, 1997) was a British-born American writer and sociologist.
[1] Parry was in the United States Navy during World War II, stationed in the Aleutian Islands.
In 1958, he became a researcher at the United States Information Agency in Washington, D.C.[2] Parry was an assistant professor of sociology and social psychology at the University of Denver from 1947 to 1949.
[3] As of 1967, he taught sociology at George Washington University, where he worked at the Social Research Group.
[4] While teaching, he wrote thrillers and short stories as James Cross,[4] some of which drew on his time as an intelligence operative.