D.A.N. Jones

D.A.N. Jones was a literary journalist who wrote more than sixty pieces for the LRB. Mary-Kay Wilmers wrote after his death in 2002 that Jones ‘presented himself as a plain man . . . but he was also more interesting and cagier than that’.

Letter

1968

17 March 1988

SIR: The article, ‘When students ruled the earth’ (LRB, 17 March), was presented as my review of four books about 1968. Not so. I was reviewing only three. I quoted very briefly from a fourth, Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report, by Hans Koning, and described it as a ‘book published in America, last year’. A British edition of this worthy book was published in London, by Unwin Hyman, on...

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