Born: 10/18/1919   St. Louis , MO
Died: 03/10/2015
Parents: Walter C. and Anna K. Jones
Spouse: Alice M. (Guseman) Jones
Children: Jeffrey, Janice
Address(es):
Permanent :
Last known address:
Hastings , MI

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Kensington Jones Papers: - The Kensinger Jones Papers, 1934-2001, document Jones's primary career as an executive for several major advertising agencies, including Leo Burnett Company, Campbell-Ewald Company, D.P. Brother and Company, Wilding Advertising, and William R.Biggs/Gilmore Associates; and his second career as a professor of advertising at Michigan State University housed at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University.	Non Fiction	Adult		2001
	Write Away - Autobiography unpublished	Biography	Adult	Durham, NC : Duke University, John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History	1999
	Pinnacle - Pinnacle is a fictionalized account of his work on the groundbreaking car commercial for Chevrolet that first put an automobile on top of a remote mountaintop in the middle of the desert. Unpublished on file in Hartman Center	Fiction	Adult		1999
	Love Poems of a Businessman	Poetry	Adult	New York : Vantage Press	1997
	A Call From the Country	Non Fiction , Michigan	Adult	Fowlerville, MI : Wilderness Adventure Press	1989
	Cable Television-New Ways to New Business	Non Fiction	Adult	Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall	1986
	- Tony the Tiger is one of his credits, as are the Jolly Green Giant and Lil’ Sprout, the Pilsbury Doughboy, and a number of advertising icons. He also wrote the original “See the USA in Your Chevrolet” jingle.	Fiction	Adult		1950 -1970
	- Articles in Advertising Age, Journal of Advertising, Detroit Adcrafter, Circumnavigator's Log	Non Fiction , Michigan	Adult
	Other writings: - Articles in Advertising Age, Journal of Advertising, Detroit Adcrafter, Circumnavigator's Log,Hastings Banner, Barry County Reminder, Echoes Magazine, Michigan History.	Non Fiction , Michigan	Adult
	- Unpublished novel with advertising theme housed at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University	Fiction	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "Hopefully to make a living doing something I thoroughly enjoy. The writing itself may entertain (radio shows and book), instruct (cable text), inform (biography), persuade (ad copy). Aim varies, according to project."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Name	Date
Barry County "Senior Citizen of the Year"	1999
Freedom's Foundation Award for Excellence in Economic Education	1984
Silver Salute, Cooperative Extension, Michigan State University	1981

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