Jonathon Green is an English lexicographer of slang and writer on the history of alternative cultures.
Of Jewish origin, Jonathon Green was educated at Bedford School (1961–1965) and Brasenose College, Oxford (1966–1969), where he read history.
[1] Green's published books have primarily focussed on sixties counterculture.
After publishing All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture (1998) he was taken to court for libel by both former Beatle George Harrison and artist Caroline Coon, and the book was withdrawn for 12 months.
[citation needed] It was awarded the 2012 Dartmouth Medal, an annual award from the Reference and User Services Association recognising the most outstanding reference work of the year.