![]() ![]() The novel jumped a century-and-a-half later when George Hazard, son of a wealthy Pennsylvania iron industrialist and Orry Main, the son of a South Carolina rice planter met as cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1842. The first novel, 1982's "NORTH AND SOUTH", began with the establishment of the two families when their founders immigrated to the New World in the late 17th century. ![]() The North and South Trilogy was a literary series that depicted the lives of two wealthy families - the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina - during the years before, during and immediately after the U.S. Three years after the publication of that series' last novel, Jakes embarked upon another literary series called the North and South Trilogy. Then he achieved literary success in the 1970s with the publication of The Kent Family Chronicles, a series of eight novels about the history of a single family between 17. ![]() ![]() During the first twenty years or so following his graduation from college, John Jakes spent that period writing many short stories and novels that featured science fiction, fantasy, westerns and the occasional historical fiction. ![]()
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