Jason Roberts (author)

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Jason Roberts is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (2006), a biography of James Holman, the blind adventurer of the early 19th century. He was the editor of The Learn2 Guide (Villard) and has also contributed to McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Village Voice, The Believer, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Inaugural winner, Van Zorn Prize for short fiction "in the tradition of Edgar Alan Poe", an award established and judged by Michael Chabon, for his short story "7C", published in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004).
Nominee, Guardian First Book Award for 2006.

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Roberts is also an authority on multimedia programming, and has written or co-written several volumes in the Director Demystified reference/instructional series (Peachpit Press).
He is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, a workspace co-operative that also includes Po Bronson, Caroline Paul, Tom Barbash, Peter Orner, ZZ Packer, and B. Ruby Rich, among others.