Jeff Stone (author)

Jeff Stone (author)

Jeff Stone is an American author, best known for a series of Kung Fu themed books for children called "The Five Ancestors", published by Random House.

Biography

Jeff Stone lives in the Midwest USA with his wife, two kids and their pet python named Yokwan (Cantonese for Jade Bangle) and practices the martial arts daily. He has worked as a photographer, an editor, a maintenance man, a technical writer, a ballroom dance instructor, a concert promoter, and a marketing director for companies that design schools, libraries, and skateboard parks. Like the Five Ancestors, Jeff Stone was adopted as an infant. He began searching for his birth mother when he was eighteen and found her fifteen years later.

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/fiveancestors/ A link to The Five Ancestors]


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