Jon Carroll

Jon Carroll is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, beginning in 1982, at that time succeeding Charles McCabe's column. He is featured on the back page 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.

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) where he is most noted for his attacks on John Brower during the John Lennon Peace Festival period in early 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 a National 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.

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"