Jon Jacobs
June
11, 1945 - November 14, 2004
"To
the sinful and vicious I am evil;
But to the good--beneficent am I."
---Mirza Khan, Ansari

Jon Jacobs in
New York City, which he has since escaped.
Education:
Attended various public schools in Pittsburgh, the Hillel Academy, Michigan
State University, the Highlander Folk School, and several of the best prisons
in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia.
Professional
Background: 1963-'64, Northeast Regional Task Force, Congress of Racial
Equality; 1965-'67, executive director, Southern Co-ordinating Committee to
End the War in Viet Nam; 1967-'69, labor organizer for the Southern Labor Action
Movement; 1969-'72, reporter, Atlanta Co-operative News; 1973-'75, city editor,
Atlanta Co-operative News; 1976-'79, head of the Southern bureau for In These
Times; 1979-'82, assistant editor, Brown's Guide to Georgia Magazine;
1982-present, freelance writer, editor, and photojournalist.
Besides
his other professional activities, Jon has worked as an actor and as a musician.
He has received several prizes for investigative reporting in the Atlanta area.
He is an active peer counselor and is recognized as an authority on alternative
sexualities. He lives with his wife in Atlanta.
Jon
co-authored Different
Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission in 1993.
To
put all conspiracy theroies and muckraking by quacks to rest and to satisfy
the obsessively curious, Jon has fully admitted to anyone who bothered to ask
(and has never gone to much trouble to hide the fact) that he writes or has
written under at least the following pen names at various times: Jon
Jacobs, Rosie, Countess VelVEEta, denis, Unda. Crucia. Eximius., Admiral of
the Ocean Sea, Michael Bywater, Queen of Germany, and Tanos. Oh yeah, we almost
forgot Jon's most important pen name: Polly Peachum!
Jon Jacobs, involved
in one of his favorite activities.
