J.B. (John Beauchamp) Jones was a writer whose books enjoyed popularity during the mid 19th century. Jones was a popular novelist (particularly of the American West and the American South) and a well-connected literary editor and political journalist in the two decades leading up to the American Civil War. During the American Civil War, Jones worked as a clerk in the Confederate War Department in Richmond (VA). Following the war, Jones moved to New Jersey, where he died the following year.