Teddy Jones
Author and former nurse and educator whose fiction includes historical novels set in Texas; author of Far From Uncertain and several previous novels and short stories.
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Mar 31, 2026 • 24min
Teddy Jones, "Far From Uncertain: One Woman’s Life of Crime and Other Righteous Deeds" (Stoney Creek, 2026)
Teddy Jones, a former nurse-educator turned novelist, revisits her Texas-set heroine Frankie in this tale spanning 1925 to 2000. The conversation follows Frankie’s flight from abuse into bootlegging, grooming and addiction, her recovery in a hospital laundry, and the moral work of nursing and redemption. Dual timelines and archival research shape the vivid historical texture.
