Jon Bradshaw (1938 – November 25, 1986)[1] was a journalist, author, and contributing editor to Esquire.
[2] He died of a heart attack at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center on November 25, 1986, at age 48.
[2] His works included a biography on blues singer Libby Holman and books on backgammon and covered the lives of professional gamblers.
[3] Bradshaw was famous for his lifestyle and journalism, and many of his works were compiled in a 2021 anthology The Ocean Is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations and published by Ze Books.
He was called the "Indiana Jones of magazine journalism" by Esquire editor Alex Belth.