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About Jon Carroll
- Jon Carroll (born November 6, 1943) was a columnist 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 Chronicle's Datebook section (the newspaper's entertainment section) Tuesdays through Fridays.
- Locally, he was best known for his 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). On Friday, October 30, 2015, Carroll wrote: "Yes, it's true; I'm retiring.
- Thirty-three years is a long time to do anything, and 8,700 columns is, well, a lot of columns.
- I haven't exactly had to wait my turn...
- My last column is Nov.
- 20..." Carroll has long lived in Oakland, with his wife, author Tracy Johnston, and a cat named Pancho, occasional subject of his columns.
- He writes satire, memoir, political comment and anarchic humor.
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