Jon Carroll
Jon Carroll is a retired newspaper columnist, best known for his work for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1982, when he succeeded columnist Charles McCabe, to 2015, when he retired. His column appeared on the back page of the Chronicles Datebook section Tuesdays through Fridays.
Carroll was born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby Pasadena. He attended 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 where he wrote "Voice Denies Nixon Drug Use," Rags magazine, Oui, a Playboy spinoff ; The Village Voice ; WomenSports magazine ; and New West magazine. Selected newspaper columns were published in book form in Near-Life Experiences, by Chronicle Books in 1993.