Tony Jones

Tony Jones writes historical fiction set in the late Roman world, an age of frontier wars, palace intrigue, and faith remade in blood. His debut trilogy traces the rise of a soldier's son — born to a concubine on the empire's margins — to Constantine the Great, the emperor who changed the course of the world.

He came to the novel after years immersed in the history of late antiquity, and he writes Constantine not as a saint or a symbol but as a man: ambitious, ruthless, and human. When he's away from the desk, he's an outdoorsman who guides canoe trips through the Boundary Waters. He has three adult children, and he lives in Minnesota with his wife and two dogs.