James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity, co-founded The Handy Writers’ Colony from 1949 to 1964 at the west edge of Marshall with his mentor Lowney Turner Handy and her husband, Harry. Jones wrote Some Came Running there before moving to New York and later to Paris and writing other books. Several other Colony writers completed and published novels during those years. The house Jones built at the edge of the Colony Grounds in 1953 still stands, and the house and Colony Grounds are dedicated a Literary Landmark by Friends of Libraries U.S.A.
