Marjorie G. Jones is a graduate of Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, and the Rutgers School of Law.  In the 1990s, after twenty-five years in banking and executive recruitment, she returned to school and earned an M.A. in Historical Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in New York City, where she wrote her thesis about early unpublished writings of Frances Yates.  Since then, she has taught history at The New School and Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY and currently teaches at Sing Sing prison. A member of the Writing Women’s Lives seminar, she lives with her husband in Bronxville, NY. 

Francis Yates and the Hermetic Tradition is the author's first book. Translated into Japanese, Frances Yates & the Hermetic Tradition was published in Japan in early 2010

Currently Marjorie is working on her next biography of Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), a Quaker known as the Audubon of Botany.