Rodger Jacobs (March 12, 1959 – July 5, 2016)[1] was an American journalist, writer, author, film producer, columnist, playwright, editor and screenwriter.

[2] Jacobs was a journalist for publications such as Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Las Vegas Sun, Eye, Hustler and PopMatters.

[8] Writing in Stage magazine, critic Jack Shaw hailed Purgatory Diaries as "a stirring examination of celebrity madness.

[8] In 2007, Jacobs wrote and directed a live presentation, The Ragged Promised Land, for the Vesuvio Cafe and The Beat Museum in San Francisco to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

[29] Lela Michael called off her efforts and died from cancer in Lake County, California on July 28, 2016, twenty-four days after Jacobs' passing.