Dr. Anne B. Jones is the author of Gold Thunder, an autobiography of 1960 NASCAR Champion Rex White, and STOP, a manual for youth violence prevention.
Gold Thunder was recently released by McFarland Publishers and is stocked in historical centers, speedway and museum gifts shops, NASCAR memorabilia shops, and traditional venues.
STOP was published and released by the Atlanta Council on Battered Women, distributed nationwide, and included as part of the television documentary Behind Closed Doors, narrated by Monica Kaufman of Atlanta’s Channel 2 News Team.
Dr. Jones has published over 500 feature articles on topics ranging from travel destinations to personality profiles and makes frequent presentations at bookstores and writing workshops. Her work tentatively titled Brave at Heart , a memoir and photography collection co-authored with her husband Sidney and Atlanta Braves baseball team photographer Walter Victor will be released by Hill Street press in the spring.
She is currently working on Hysterical and Historical Tales from the Track: Racing’s Past & Present , a collection of writings on motorsports personalities, and Blackwater Death, a serial killer thriller set on the Georgia coast. Dr. Jones was instrumental in establishing the Morrow, Georgia annual Barnes and Noble Writing Conference.
She specialized in working with at-risk students for thirty-one years, teaching in a variety of school settings, including Job Corp, Boys and Girls Town (a shelter for status offenders), and Dekalb Alternative School (an educational center for suspended students). She has been a volunteer mediator, rape crisis counselor, victim-witness assistant, volunteer probation officer, writer for a charity clinic, and member of the Gwinnett County Domestic Violence Task Force.
You may contact her at: annebjones@msn.com