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

And he has also written an interesting little TL about Haiti staying separated into two countries since the early 19th century :

Stories From A Divided Haiti