- Jon Carroll
John Carroll is a columnist for the "
San Francisco Chronicle ", beginning in 1982. He is featured on page 2 of the Datebook (the newspaper's entertainment section) on weekdays. Locally, he is best known for his moderate-to-liberal politics and his cat columns. On the internet, he is known for starting the Unitarian Jihad movement.Carroll was born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby Pasadena. He attended (but did not finish) UC Berkeley, where he edited the campus humor magazine, the "California Pelican." Before becoming a newspaper columnist, he worked in the editorial vineyards at "
Rolling Stone " magazine (assistant editor, 1970); "Oui", a "Playboy " spinoff (editor, 1972); the "Village Voice " (West Coast editor, 1974); "WomenSports " magazine (Consulting editor); and "New West" magazine (editor, 1978, where he won aNational Magazine Award in 1979).Carroll has long lived in Oakland, with his wife, author Tracy Johnston, and two cats named Archie and Bucket, occasional subjects of his columns (the cats, that is, not his wife). Archie died on July 20, 2007. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/07/25/DDQRR66MV2.DTL Jon Carroll ] ]
References
External links
* [http://sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/ Archive of columns]
* [http://www.well.com/conf/media/ Media Conference Host] at The WELL
* [http://cecilvortex.com/swath/2007/05/18/an_interview_with_jon_carroll.html Jon Carroll on creativity, an interview with about-creativity.comMay 18 ,2007 ]
* [http://www.uuism.net/uuwiki/index.php?title=Unitarian_Jihad Unitarian Jihad]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
