Writer; professor of journalism and creative writing.  Born–September 28, 1936, Montgomery.  Parents–Julius Porter and Emily (Hillman) Paterson. Married– Charles William Jones.  Children–two.  Education:  Hollins College, Roanoke, Va., 1958; Auburn University, M.A., 1972; Ph. D., 1975. Taught at Auburn University at Montgomery, 1972-1981; at the School of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, 1984-2005; creative writing instructor at CALL–“Career, Certificates, and Life Planning”–at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  Wrote and produced “The Writer’s Tale,” a program of interviews with writers, 2001-2005, at the University of Maryland.  Free-lance writer; published many articles and essays.

Source;

Encyclopedia of Alabama

Sweet Mystery.

Publications:

Be Somebody:  A Biography of Marguerite Rewalt. 1986.

Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering.  Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 1996.

Thomas More.  Boston:  Twayne, 1979.

Joint_Publications;

Philip Roth.  New York: Ungar, 1981.