About Jan Jones
Born 1955. Jan Jones is a British writer, computer scientist, novelist and software engineer.
Janice Rosemary Jones (known as Jan Jones) (born 24 December 1955) is a British former software engineer, now a writer of romantic fiction and short stories. Her debut novel, Stage By Stage, was published in July 2005 and won the Romantic Novelists' Association Joan Hessayon Award the same year.
In her first career as software engineer, she was the architect of the SuperBASIC programming language for the Sinclair QL personal computer while working at Sinclair Research in the early 1980s. Before joining Sinclair Research, she worked at British Gas and the Royal School of Mines as a programmer and lecturer.
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Who is Jan Jones?
British writer
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Jan Jones was born on 24 December 1955 in London.
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Jan Jones is a writer, computer scientist, novelist and software engineer.
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Jan Jones is British.
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