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Robert Frederick Jackson, Jr. Biographical Information
Adapted from Virginia, the University of Virginia Alumni Association magazine, Publication Announcement May 8, 2017
Writer, Robert Frederick Jackson, Jr. is retired from teaching, having focused most of his career on teaching middle school social studies. He also taught at the college level and coached college women’s volleyball in the Philippines. Since leaving teaching, Mr. Jackson has turned his attention to writing, painting, and illustration. Besides paintings and drawings, he paints murals, sometimes working with his daughter, Sonia Jackson Summers, a painter and illustrator.
Robert is married to the former Rosario Maria Taboada from the Visayan Islands of the Philippines, a region where some of his novels are set. The couple lived there for several years in the nineteen-seventies following their meeting at the University of Virginia. She was a foreign exchange nurse at the University of Virginia Hospital. In those days, her parents owned a fifty bed hospital in the Philippines, built out of the devastation of World War II. Robert and Maria’s residency in the islands coincided with the martial law period of the Marcos presidency.
A dominate theme within the novels is the companionship, equality, and determination that several mixed race, cross cultural couples apply in their attempt to function normally in an era in which their relationships are abnormal for society's norms. Mr. Jackson publishes his titles in trade paperbacks and Kindle ebook editions.
Robert Frederick Jackson, Jr's. literary work includes a World War II naval novel set in the South Pacific and California and two historically set, interrelated fiction series, "Magandang Pilipinas" and "Sunny of the Old Southwest". The former is set in the Philippines at the time of America’s conquest of those islands, and the latter is about the relationship between a young female refugee from the Long Walk of the Navajo and a young white man from Virginia. Serious fiction, paintings, illustrations, and photography, with positive messages, has always been Mr. Jackson’s ultimate life goal.
Upcoming novels include a World War II story finding yet another mixed couple challenged by life, this time in the Japanese occupied Philippines, and the second book about a fictional early 20th. Century adventuress and philanthropist, nicknamed "the Jaguarundi". Her origins story is the novel KATHLEEN.
Robert Frederick Jackson, Jr. Biographical Information
Adapted from Virginia, the University of Virginia Alumni Association magazine, Publication Announcement May 8, 2017
Writer, Robert Frederick Jackson, Jr. is retired from teaching, having focused most of his career on teaching middle school social studies. He also taught at the college level and coached college women’s volleyball in the Philippines. Since leaving teaching, Mr. Jackson has turned his attention to writing, painting, and illustration. Besides paintings and drawings, he paints murals, sometimes working with his daughter, Sonia Jackson Summers, a painter and illustrator.
Robert is married to the former Rosario Maria Taboada from the Visayan Islands of the Philippines, a region where some of his novels are set. The couple lived there for several years in the nineteen-seventies following their meeting at the University of Virginia. She was a foreign exchange nurse at the University of Virginia Hospital. In those days, her parents owned a fifty bed hospital in the Philippines, built out of the devastation of World War II. Robert and Maria’s residency in the islands coincided with the martial law period of the Marcos presidency.
A dominate theme within the novels is the companionship, equality, and determination that several mixed race, cross cultural couples apply in their attempt to function normally in an era in which their relationships are abnormal for society's norms. Mr. Jackson publishes his titles in trade paperbacks and Kindle ebook editions.
Robert Frederick Jackson, Jr's. literary work includes a World War II naval novel set in the South Pacific and California and two historically set, interrelated fiction series, "Magandang Pilipinas" and "Sunny of the Old Southwest". The former is set in the Philippines at the time of America’s conquest of those islands, and the latter is about the relationship between a young female refugee from the Long Walk of the Navajo and a young white man from Virginia. Serious fiction, paintings, illustrations, and photography, with positive messages, has always been Mr. Jackson’s ultimate life goal.
Upcoming novels include a World War II story finding yet another mixed couple challenged by life, this time in the Japanese occupied Philippines, and the second book about a fictional early 20th. Century adventuress and philanthropist, nicknamed "the Jaguarundi". Her origins story is the novel KATHLEEN.
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