Jon Carroll

Jon Carroll has been a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1982, when he succeeded columnist Charles McCabe. His column appears on the back page of the Chronicle's Datebook section (the newspaper's entertainment section) Tuesdays through Fridays. Locally, he is best known for his moderate-to-liberal politics and his odd, self-referential humor.

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 on the editorial staff at Rolling Stone magazine (assistant editor, 1970) where he wrote "Voice Denies Nixon Drug Use," Rags magazine, 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 a National Magazine Award in 1979).

Carroll has long lived in Oakland, with his wife, author Tracy Johnston, and two cats named Pancho and Bucket, occasional subjects of his columns. He rediscovered mondegreens and invented pele dancing, He writes satire, memoir, political comment and anarchic humor.

References

External links

• Archive of columns
• Media Conference Host at The WELL
• Jon Carroll on creativity, an interview with about-creativity.com May 18, 2007
• Carroll's column on the "Unitarian Jihad"