Meet Lois Foyt and Jon Foyt
Lois Foyt and Jon Foyt ~ graduates of Stanford University ~ have collaborated in writing seven published novels. Their first two novels, Last Train From Mendrisio and Postage Due, were published in the U.K., and their other books, Marathon My Marathon, Four Corners, Painted Waters, Red Willow Brew and The Test of Time, found distinguished small literary publishing houses in the U. S.
D. H. Lawrence said that the novel is the highest form of art. In their critically acclaimed body of work the Foyts have always sought the summit of literary landscapes.
They have also written a short story, Ocotillo Omen, which has been published in Italian and English in an Italian literary magazine. They have adapted Painted Waters and Marathon My Marathon into screenplays and Four Corners into a film treatment.
The Foyts now make their home in Jack London’s Valley of the Moon
in California’s wine country, following a twelve-year writing enterprise
in Santa Fe hosting literary salons, sponsoring book and film festivals,
presenting papers, giving readings and lecturing, together with research
sojourns to: Switzerland; Turks & Caicos; Albania; Santa Barbara;
Athens, Georgia; Marathon, Greece; Marathon, Texas; Manhattan;
the Coast of Maine; Ireland; the French Quarter; La Jolla; Santa Monica;
Pass Christian, Mississippi; and Upstate New York.
Their extracurricular activities include hiking, running and collecting
fine art and antiques.
Their career paths after Stanford include Jon’s active duty in Military Intelligence, electronics manufacturing, radio broadcasting, international banking, and real estate brokerage and development; and Lois’ in art and antique investments and appraisals. She headed Decorative Arts, an interior design company, after completing graduate studies at Portland State University. In 2007 she founded Fieldcrest Fine Arts, an antique and decorative arts consulting firm specializing in 19th century Asian, American and European bronzes.
