An American member from Kew Gardens, New York. Born October 1971, married with cat, the senior partner in a three-person criminal law practice, and the author of a couple of published short stories and 15 articles in scholarly journals nobody reads. A participant in the old soc.history.what-if newsgroup from 1995 until about 2005, co-creator of the now-defunct Alternate History Travel Guide, and creator of Spinoza in Turkey. Currently working on the second draft of The Bull and the Dolphin, a non-AH novel about a Minoan in Egypt during the Hyksos period.

Jon has shown a clear interest for that all too rare beast of alternate history fiction - timelines and scenarios that are set in Africa. So far, he has introduced AH.com to three such intriguing scenarios :

Malê Rising

Four Scenes from São Tomé

Lo, the Nobles Lament, the Poor Rejoice