Kaylie Jones

Kaylie Jones (born August 5, 1960 in Paris, France) is an American writer, memoirist and novelist.

She has taught in the public schools of New York City through Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and has organized a symposium at Southampton College in memory of her father, who died in 1977.

In 1998, Jones' book A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (published in 1990) became a Merchant Ivory film.

The film was directed by James Ivory and starred Leelee Sobieski as Channe (the protagonist in the novel).

[citation needed] Jones is married to Kevin Heisler and has a daughter, Eyrna, born in 1997.