John Bush Jones (August 3, 1940 – December 31, 2019)[1] was an American author, theatre director, critic, educator and scholar.
He described himself as a child of the World War II home front, having just turned five, eleven days before the Surrender of Japan.
"my sensory memories great and small of my life on my own home front of Chicago's North Shore suburbs have remained a part if me ever since ... a formation of bombers passed low over my house, opened their bomb bay doors, and dropped thousands of colored handbills featuring the familiar logo of the Minute Man and the equally famous "'BUY WAR BONDS!
[1][5] At Brandeis, Jones served on the organizing committee for many years of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
He directed numerous plays and musicals both at Brandeis and in professional theatre, including Ruddigore, Uncommon Women and Others and She Loves Me.