Biographer Brian Jay Jones on How Washington Irving: An American Original Came About - video

Brian Jay Jones worked on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. for 25 years, which proved to be great training grounds for writing biographies. His long career in politics taught him to research, gather and summarize vast amounts of information. Jones stumbled upon his first biography project by accident when he came across Washington Irving's writings on Christmas. He was intrigued and began querying agents even before he had anything written for his biography, Washington Irving: an American Original...