From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Matthew F. Jones is an American novelist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in upstate New York, he now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. His 1999 novel Deepwater was adapted for a 2006 film of the same title, starring Lucas Black and Peter Coyote. Jones has written a screenplay adaptation of his 1996 novel A Single Shot, and the film went into production in 2010. Description... see more