Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones (born February 1, 1942) is a British comedian and writer.

Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, and graduated from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He appeared on At Last the 1948 Show with Michael Palin and John Cleese and wrote for The Frost Report and several other of David Frost's programmes on British television. He was a member of the team of writers and performers that made Monty Python's Flying Circus. He co-wrote with Michael Palin Ripping Yarns, and wrote the screenplay for Labyrinth (1986). He has also written several books on mediæval history and numerous works for children.

Publications

Fiction

• Fairy Tales - 1981
• The Saga of Erik the Viking - 1983 (Children's Book Award 1984)
• Nicobobinus - 1985
• The Knights and the Squire - 1997
• Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic - 1997, a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams
• The Lady and the Squire - 2001 (nominated for a Whitbread Award)

with Brian Froud

• The Goblins of the Labyrinth - 1986
• Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book - 1994
• The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins - 1996 (an abridged re-release of The Goblins of the Labyrinth, in a smaller format with the colour plates missing)
• Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Quentin Cottington's Journal of Faery Research - 1996

Non-fiction

• Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary - 1980, (updated 1994)
• Foreword to The Quest for King Arthur by David Day - 1995

Television

Terry Jones has presented several factual television programmes, notably the BBC documentary series The Crusades (1996) and Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (2004).

Screenplays

• Labyrinth - 1986
• Erik the Viking - 1989, which includes a notice in the credits specifically disclaiming any link with Jones's earlier novel ("although he hopes it will help the sales")
• The Wind in the Willows - 1996

Political articles

• - published in The Observer, December 30, 2001
• - published in The Observer, January 6, 2002
• - published in the London Daily Telegraph, January 12, 2002
• - published in The Observer, February 17, 2002
• - published in The Observer, March 17, 2002
• - published in The Observer, April 21, 2002
• - published in The Observer, September 22, 2002
• - published in The Observer, January 26, 2003
• - published in The Observer, February 23, 2003
• - published in The Observer, March 2, 2003
• - published in The Observer, March 9, 2003
• - published in The Observer, March 16, 2003
• - published in The Observer, March 23, 2003
• - published in The Observer, April 13, 2003
• - published in The Observer, April 27, 2003
• - published in The Observer, May 4, 2003
• - published in The Observer, May 4, 2003
• - published in The Observer, May 18, 2003
• - published in The Observer, July 6, 2003
• - published in The Observer, August 31, 2003
• - published in The Observer, October 5, 2003
• - published in The Independent, January 27, 2004
• - published in The Independent, February 1, 2004
• - published in The Guardian, April 14, 2004
• - published in The Guardian, April 19, 2004
• - published in The Guardian, April 30, 2004
• - published in The Guardian, May 22, 2004
• - published in The Guardian, June 16, 2004
• - published in The Guardian, July 7, 2004