Jack Jones, a Welsh miner, Trade Union official, politician, novelist and playwright, was born at Tai-Harri-Blawdd in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. During his 20's Jack began to educate himself and develop his love of the theatre and writing. From 1920-1929, Jack was a speaker for the Communist Party, then the Labour Party, and finally the Liberal Party. During the 1930s he made another political change and was a speaker for Oswald Mosley's New Party. In the 1945 election he supported 'National' candidate Sir James Grigg. By 1934 he had started to earn a living as a writer and went on to write numerous novels, autobiographies and plays. During the Second World War (1939-1945), he was a speaker for the Ministry of Information and the National Savings Movement, and he went on two lecture tours in America and the European battlefronts. In 1948, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the community and to literature. In February 1970, he won an award from the Arts Council of Wales for 'his distinguished contribution to the literature of Wales'. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Jones_(novelist))