Jon Carroll (born November 6, 1943) is a retired newspaper columnist, best known for his work for the San Francisco Chronicle[1] from 1982, when he succeeded columnist Charles McCabe, to 2015, when he retired.
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).
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